What are some old devices you tinker with and what for? My oldest PC is a Pentium 3 Toshiba Satellite. I've got Gentoo on it but I've been lazy and haven't set up SSH so I can chroot in and compile things. My goal is to use it as a thin client for larp poi

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Retroslop Chud 09/30/26 (Wed) 08:15:39 №40545 [Quote]

What are some old devices you tinker with and what for? My oldest PC is a Pentium 3 Toshiba Satellite. I've got Gentoo on it but I've been lazy and haven't set up SSH so I can chroot in and compile things. My goal is to use it as a thin client for larp points in public

Chud 09/30/26 (Wed) 10:55:37 №40576 [Quote]

>>40545 (OP)
The more I think about it, the early 2000s must have been insanity for computers. This thing and the PS3 are only 4-5 years apart

Chud 09/30/26 (Wed) 11:57:00 №40581 [Quote]

>>40545 (OP)
1983 PDP-11/73

Chud 09/30/26 (Wed) 14:11:08 №40587 [Quote]

I own a shit ton of DVDs

Chud 09/30/26 (Wed) 14:17:21 №40589 [Quote]

i have an old walkman with shitty batteries. im waiting for the replacement battery to arrive and im trying to find a way to not permanently destroy it trying to pry it open.

Chud 09/30/26 (Wed) 14:19:49 №40590 [Quote]

I have an iPod mini 2 that I keep in my car in case my phono ever runs out of power in my car and I need a back up device to listen to some songs or in case of a power outage

Chud 09/30/26 (Wed) 15:01:22 №40596 [Quote]

i tried to get debian on my hp 250 g4 from like 2015-2016 but grub did some bullshit so im planning on installing freebsd on it

Chud 09/30/26 (Wed) 16:28:23 №40609 [Quote]

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>>40545 (OP)
I have CDs and a diskman to play them in my car and whenever I'm out in general

Chud 09/30/26 (Wed) 16:45:52 №40611 [Quote]

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i486 compaq PC with some nophono audio and network card and a jury rigged cdrom drive
PSP I restored
b&w and color crt tvs I managed to connect to digital output using an old vhs player as signal converter
uhh and I guess my old PC is retro since fx8350 released 14 years ago

Chud 09/30/26 (Wed) 17:22:18 №40619 [Quote]

>>40611
You should try freedos and some old linux distros

Chud 09/30/26 (Wed) 21:51:56 №40638 [Quote]

floppy disk drive and a copy of windows 3.1

Chud 10/04/26 (Sun) 23:23:00 №40985 [Quote]

I wonder if a 16 bit computer (amiga, atari) thread would get any traction here

Chud 10/06/26 (Tue) 22:54:01 №41205 [Quote]

I have a psp 2000, 2014 late era mac mini running on 12.7, had used to own a xp laptop (but gave it to some literalwho for free) and have a 100+ cd collection

also bump because this thread is gemmy

Chud 10/07/26 (Wed) 02:53:18 №41215 [Quote]

>>40611
if you have a gempass, you could post from a TUI web browser

Chud 10/07/26 (Wed) 04:01:51 №41221 [Quote]

FPGA ZX Spectrum if it counts. Nice machine.