What's In The Retro Room and Server Room
This is what my server room and retro room looked like in January 2015.
Here's what it looks like now.
Note to creeps, burglars and freaks: this house is protected by an alarm
system, hidden webcams recording off-site and my laser-sight
.40 Glock pistol (loaded with
hollow point). This is not a joke.
If you're more curious about a particular item, feel free to
drop me an E-mail.
This panorama scrolls horizontally
- alex
Beige-box clone Am5x86/133 (P75), 40MB RAM
MS-DOS 6.22
DOS games machine
Gift from a friend
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- spindler
Macintosh Quadra 800, 68040 clockchipped to 40MHz, 136MB RAM
Mac OS 7.6.1, Mac OS 8.1, A/UX 3.1.1
Mac 68K workstation
Gift from a friend
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- jay
Amiga 3000, 25MHz 68030, 2MB chip/8MB fast RAM
AmigaOS 2.0, Kickstart 37.175 (2.04)
Amix experimentation
A3070 tape drive is next to SGI Indy (5)
Private purchase
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- jonathan
Power Macintosh 7300, G4/800 CPU, 1GB RAM
OrangePC 620, K6-II @ 400MHz, 128MB RAM
Mac OS 9.1, Windows 95, Windows 98
Mac games machine, Windows games machine
University surplus
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- indy
Silicon Graphics Indy, 150MHz R4400SC, 256MB RAM
Irix 6.5.10
Newport XL24 graphics, Indy Presenter board
Low-end SGI workstation, software testing
Private purchase (case is blue bag under far table corner)
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- dave
Amiga 4000T (QuikPak), 56MHz 68060, 2MB chip/128MB fast RAM
Hydra NIC, Picasso IV RTG
AmigaOS 3.9
WHDLoad games and AmigaOS experimentation
Private purchase
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- scubeydoo
Power Mac G4 Cube, 450MHz G4, 512MB RAM
Mac OS X 10.4.11
Looking sexy (waiting for a CPU upgrade)
Estate sale
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- jean
BeBox, dual PowerPC 603/133 CPU, 256MB RAM
BeOS R5
BeOS workstation
Private purchase
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- purplehaze
Silicon Graphics Indigo2, 175MHz R10000, 256MB RAM
Irix 6.5.22
Sex appeal
Private purchase
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- sparky
Sun Ultra-3 laptop (rebadged Tadpole Viper), 1.2GHz UltraSPARC IIIi,
2GB RAM
Solaris 10
Sterilizing crotches and starting fires, Solaris development
Private purchase
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- reykjavik
Solbourne S3000, 33MHz KAP SPARC, 40MB RAM
OS/MP 4.1C (SunOS 4 based)
SunOS workstation; console for ken
Private purchase (case is black bag on ground)
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- ken
DEC VAXStation 3100 M76 SPX, 35.71MHz KA43-A "Rigel", 32MB RAM
OpenVMS 6.2-Y2K
VMS workstation
Private purchase
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- bryce
2007 Mac mini, Core 2 Duo 2GHz, 2GB RAM
Mac OS X 10.6.8
Android development, Windows 7 VM
Bought new
On top on the monitor stand: USRobotics Pilot 1000, before it was
Palm, just 'cuz
Shares KVM with "C" Under The Bench machines (below)
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- bil
Commodore 128DCR, 1MHz MOS 8502, 128K RAM
1571 disk drive, RR-Net Ethernet
Commodore BASIC 2.0/7.0
6502 development workstation
Private purchase
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In The Back Closet
Tomy Tutor (Bought new, my first computer),
Tomy Pyuuta, Tomy Pyuuta Jr.
Commodore MOS KIM-1
(1MHz 6502, 1KB RAM) (x3) (Rev A, D, F)
As seen on the Leo Laporte show!
Original OLPC XO-1 (x2; bought new from Give One Get One)
akane: Macintosh Portable (being repaired)
andrew: Macintosh IIsi (my first Macintosh)
barkley: Blueberry iBook G3 (WaMCom regression tester)
benji: Macintosh PowerBook 1400 with G3/466 (Classilla tester)
(my first laptop, repaired hand-me-down from bro-in-law)
bigbunny: General Magic DataRover 840 (Magic Cap)
gordon: Toshiba Satellite 486 Laptop (disk image workstation)
nathan: AT&T Globalist 620 P75 (Windows 95)
peanut: IBM PCjr, in hard carrying case (plays King's Quest)
rintintin: Macintosh PowerBook 540 (68LC040)
fiduo: PowerBook Duo 2300c with mini-dock
spot: Newton eMate 300 (x2)
wally: PowerBook WallStreet G3 (PDQ), 292MHz G3 (Rhapsody test
machine)
Various portables: Atari Lynx (full kit), Atari Portfolio, Nintendo GameBoy,
NEC TurboExpress, Treamcast (portable Sega Dreamcast with LCD display),
three Commodore SX-64s
On The Corner
- woz
Apple IIgs ROM 03 in Woz Limited Edition case, Transwarp GS 7MHz 65816, 2MB RAM
GS/OS 6.0.1
Apple II games machine
School surplus
- jef
Canon Cat, 5MHz 68000, 256K RAM
Forth
Gorgeous museum piece and homage to Jef Raskin
Private purchase
- mystic
Macintosh Colour Classic, LC575 Mystic board, full 68040 @ 33MHz, 8MB RAM,
Apple II card
System 7.1
LocalTalk bridging, looking cute
Private purchase
- sculley
Newton MessagePad 2100, 162MHz StrongARM SA-110, 4MB RAM
NewtonOS 2.1
Newton experimentation
Private purchase
The Consoles
- stella
Atari 2600 VCS (Darth Vader), 1.19MHz 6507, 128 bytes RAM
Are you kidding?
Way too much Kaboom!
Private purchase
- sadie
Sega Dreamcast, 200MHz Hitachi SH4, 16MB RAM, Broadband Adaptor
Dreamcast OS, Windows CE, Linux, NetBSD
Way too much Crazy Taxi
Bought new
- sylvia
Sylvania GTE Intellivision Master Component, 0.895MHz GI CP1610, 1.4K RAM
EXEC
Way too much Shark! Shark!
Thrift shop purchase
(The original Tandyvision I had as a kid is around here somewhere too)
- bally (aka, foie zgrass, ha ha ha!)
under the TV cart
Bally Astrocade, 1.789MHz Zilog Z80, 4K RAM
Internal OS, BASIC
Way too much Pinball and Gunfight
Don't use it on the rug
Private purchase
- iris
Pedigree Burmese 2005 model year, 2-bit CPU, selective memory
Internal OS (usually in nanosleep)
Converts cat food to poop and air to purring sounds
Christmas gift when she was four months old
Worst cat ever
Under The Bench
These systems are all attached to the same KVM the Mac mini is.
- bruce
Power Mac G5 Quad, 2x2.5GHz PowerPC 970MP (dual-core), 16GB RAM
Mac OS X 10.4.11
The machine this was typed on and the machine I use most of the time
Most of my software is built and developed on this machine as well,
including TenFourFox
btw, Intel sucks
Bought new
- bigred
Silicon Graphics Fuel, 800MHz R16000, 4GB RAM
Irix 6.5.30 with patches
V12 graphics, M-Audio sound, SCSI, DAT, DVD-ROM, FireWire
High-end Irix workstation, software development
Private purchase
- bryan
Power Mac G4 MDD, 2x1.8GHz 7447A PowerPC G4, 2GB RAM
Mac OS 9.2.2 (sees only 1.5GB)
Classilla development, OS 9 workstation
Bought new
- atomicdog
15" Titanium PowerBook G4, 867MHz 7455 G4, 1GB RAM
Mac OS 9.2.2
Portable Mac OS 9 workstation
as seen on the Leo Laporte Show!
Private purchase
tramielski
Commodore PET 2001 (blue badge), 1MHz 6502, 8K RAM
BASIC 2.0
Memorial to Jack Tramiel
Private purchase
Yes, he and his son Leonard autographed the manual
The Servers and The Network
- thule
Macintosh IIci, 25MHz 68030, 128MB RAM
NetBSD v.mumble
Internal DNS, DHCP, powerfail services, AppleShare/AppleTalk
University surplus
On top: GSM terminal for remote status reporting; security camera
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- uppsala
This is the system serving you this page
IBM p520 Express, POWER6 4.2GHz (dual-core with SMT), 8GB RAM, SAS 15K RAID 5
AIX 6 TL.mumble
Web, gopher, E-mail, database
Bought refurbished
because IBM won't deign to make end user sales
Yes, I've been an AIX sysadmin since 3.2.5
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- oslo
Power Mac G4, 450MHz 7400 G4, 2GB RAM
Mac OS X 10.4.11
File server and backup server (connected to FW800 RAID 5)
Environmental
monitoring
Point-to-point fast Gigabit Ethernet link to bruce
Private purchase
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- stockholm
Apple Network Server
500, 200MHz PowerPC 604e, 512MB RAM
AIX 4.1.5 with patches
The original www.floodgap.com
Now emergency backup for uppsala
University surplus (but barely used when I got it)
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- Ghetto halon system
Behind stockholm: oulu
Cobalt RaQ 1, 150MHz MIPS RM5230, 32MB RAM
NetBSD v.mumble
NFS services
Gift from a friend
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- Next to oslo:
Philips hue lighting base station, ghetto
voice mail,
monitor switchbox, T1 router;
Also behind stockholm: oslo's RAID 5 array, external 100Mbps
switch, internal secured 100Mbps backbone, internal secured 10Mbps backbone
(with 10b2 segment and LocalTalk segment), guest Wi-Fi on DMZ
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- debi/sondrestrom
Alpha Micro Eagle 300 (AM-3500-E300), 40MHz 68EC030, 16MB RAM,
AM-75 console
AMOS 2.3a
Proudly powering
ampm.floodgap.com
Private purchase
Identically configured E100 next to it
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- homer
Hewlett-Packard HP 9000/350, 25MHz 68020/68881, 16MB RAM
HP-UX 8.0
HP-UX therapy
Gift from a friend
This is the only room large enough for it
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Waiting In The Server Room
carl: Power Mac 7100, G3/400, 136MB, AppleShare file server
if thule croaks
(might be replaced by the Performa 6115CD I just got)
holmstock: Apple Network Server 700 (hardware double for
stockholm)
elroy: Hewlett-Packard C8000 (9000/785), 1.1GHz PA-8900 (dual-core),
1GB RAM, HP/UX 11i
godthaab: Macintosh Quadra 605 in LC III case, 25MHz 68040 (full),
36MB RAM, NetBSD.mumble
brinton: Workgroup Server
9150, System 7.6, 80MHz PowerPC 601, 112MB RAM
steve: Macintosh SE/30, System 6.0.8, 8MB RAM
andy: Macintosh IIsi, System 7.1, 36MB RAM
Mr. T: Macintosh Plus, System 6.0.8, 4MB RAM
big box o'Tandy Pocket Computers
various G4 Mac minis that multiply in the dark of night
two Tomy Pyuuta Mk II systems
unnamed Alpha Micro 1000 with
sidecar AM-1001 external disk
unnamed Texas Instruments CC-40, with printer, serial and
prototype wafertape drive
unnamed Toshiba Libretto 70CT (Pentium MMX 120MHz, Windows 95)
unnamed Power Macintosh 9600
unnamed Tandy Color Computer 3, floppy drive, multi-cart expander
unnamed Atari XEGS, 1050 floppy drive, keyboard, light gun, joysticks
Timex Sinclair 1000 and 2068
unnamed Apple III, may or may not work, may or may not have been dropped
to find out if it works
various spare workstations and computers
Elsewhere In The House
christopher: strawberry iMac G3 with Sonnet HARMONi 600MHz card,
Mac OS 9.2.2 and OS X Jaguar (in the guest/music room)
beethoven: Yamaha CX5M with SFG-05 interface
(using christopher for video out; in the guest/music room)

dana: AlphaSmart Dana, PalmOS 4.1; note taking,
what else? (in the commons)
luxo: iMac G4, 1GHz 7445 CPU, OS X Tiger;
backup workstation (in the commons)
underdog: 12" iBook G4/1.33, OS X Tiger; my daily driver laptop
(everywhere I travel)
spartacus: Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh with G3 L2 upgrade
(in my bedroom)
(beneath it: Apple Interactive Television Box)
In Storage
tma-01: PDP-11/44, in unknown condition, tape drives, RL02 disk drive
several Amiga 500 systems that also multiply furiously
unnamed Atari Mega ST with hard disk
thrashed Atari 400 with no power supply
two boxed Tandy Color Computer 2 systems
unnamed DEC DECmate II (PDP-8)
unnamed various DEC Professional-350 and -380
systems (at least one with Venix)
crapload of dummy terminals, mostly Alpha Micro, DEC and Wyse
more spare systems than I can possibly enumerate
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