I remember playing with a MSDN copy of Win NT 3.51 in my cousin's cubical back at AMI in the late 90s. We had NT4 on a Pentium Pro I got to admin back in high school. I even tried to see if I could get the library computers to login off a Samba PDC instead of the NT4 Server. A lot of stuff didn't work, and group policies were pretty janky.
I like how the author also has an SGI and two Sun machines next to this one. We got a hold of some old Sun Stations in University back in 2001; paid like $12 for a crate of them. They were made in the 80s and had dual 100MB SCSI hard drives, tons of ram slots (I want to say 32 or 64MB of potential ram), and those crazy optical mice that needed the grid based mouse pads. I think I got RedHat running on mine and didn't do much with it.
I'd love to collect and work on old stuff like this, but I started to do some hard core backpacking in my 30s and my parents threw out nearly everything while I was over seas for a few years. I'd really like to stay minimal with a room full or less of stuff, so I don't see myself getting into old computing any time soon. I'll just read posts like this and read The 8-Bit guy to get that nostalgia fix.
Oh and if you're ever in Seattle and love old machines, check out The Living Computer Museum. They have actual Altos, HP UX, TIs, Apples, and DEC Alpha machines you can log into and play with. It's pretty amazing.
The Living Computer Museum is indeed fantastic. I’m partial to the mainframes but my daughter hates the loud noise in the cold room so we spend more time playing old PC games.
I like how the author also has an SGI and two Sun machines next to this one. We got a hold of some old Sun Stations in University back in 2001; paid like $12 for a crate of them. They were made in the 80s and had dual 100MB SCSI hard drives, tons of ram slots (I want to say 32 or 64MB of potential ram), and those crazy optical mice that needed the grid based mouse pads. I think I got RedHat running on mine and didn't do much with it.
I'd love to collect and work on old stuff like this, but I started to do some hard core backpacking in my 30s and my parents threw out nearly everything while I was over seas for a few years. I'd really like to stay minimal with a room full or less of stuff, so I don't see myself getting into old computing any time soon. I'll just read posts like this and read The 8-Bit guy to get that nostalgia fix.
Oh and if you're ever in Seattle and love old machines, check out The Living Computer Museum. They have actual Altos, HP UX, TIs, Apples, and DEC Alpha machines you can log into and play with. It's pretty amazing.