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The Serial Port Early Release: 48 Modems at Once!
The folks at The Serial Port rescued a Total Control terminal server from an abandoned ISP, follow along as they outline why this thing is so awesome and see if they can get it fired up!
The Serial Port Discord!
The Serial Port and I have decided to collaborate even further by extending access to The Serial Port Discord to my $5 and upPatreon tiers! We really hope this will help grow the βnetroβ and enterprise networking+computing community. If youβre not in there already I think youβll find all sor...
VCF Midwest Haul
What I've picked up (so far) at VCF Midwest. Not sure how I'll get this in the suitcase. TSA might have questions.
VGA Capture Setup
Finally pulled the trigger on an OSSC to up the VGA capture game and... so far I'm impressed. A better HDMI->USB card is on the way and hopefully I'll be able to do better justice for this gear in future videos π€
Patreon Vid: PC Magazine June 9, 1987
Taking a look at a PC Magazine issue from June 9th, 1987.
The Serial Port Early Release: Origins of Network Switches!
The Serial Port explores where network switches came from: the DEC LAN Bridge 100!They've outdone themselves with this awesome look at the origins of ethernet (including thicknet) and we get to see the DEC LAN Bridge in action!
Early Vid: IBM p5 CPU Swap and LPAR Setup
Swapping out a bad POWER5+ CPU in my IBM p5 550Q machine and finally getting to set up real working LPARs!Video should go live Friday!https://youtu.be/J1NxcgasTIU
Patreon Vid: Talking with my Dad about his TRS-80 Model III
My Dad bought this TRS-80 Model III back in the 1980s and we finally had a reason to get this over to my house. This is mostly an interview portion of what will eventually be a full video on this TRS-80 (the full video will include much more detail, a hopefully-quick capacitor repair job, and actual...
Huge Gear Haul
Drove to Kansas this weekend to pick up a huge haul of gear, including an IBM RS/6000!
Early Release: Sun StorEdge S1
Taking a look at a Sun Microsystems StorEdge S1 three disk SCSI array from the early 2000s!Video should go live on the channel Friday!
Back in the (Sun) Saddle
Next video will be about the Sun StorEdge S1 β a three disk SCSI array from the early 2000s. Long time viewers will know it's been a while since some Sun stuff has made an appearance, so I'm excited to dive into this thing; I bought it over a year ago but haven't powered it on. Realist...
AGP Card in a PIX 520
By popular demand, trying to get video output from a PIX 520 firewall.
Cisco PIX 520 + Random Updates
Firing up a Cisco PIX 520, retro rack update, remodel update.
Broadband Progress
It... just worked? Literally pasted in the example config from the router's documentation and was immediately able to get an IP. Added a simple NAT config and bam... online. I thought this part would take days!
42U
Uh oh. Retro rack incoming.
Gigabit Intel Stack Update
I got the gigabit fiber uplink to the Intel Express stack working... with a surprising combo of hardware and software changes.
Homelab Broadband
Recently snagged a uBR7114 on eBay, which should let me setup a local broadband network. It's just DOCSIS 1/1.1 but that's plenty for messing around. What drew me to this one is that usually you need an upconverter (i.e. more $$$ and more gear) on the downstream port, but this one has an int...
Patreon Vid: Latest Hauls and Cisco 2821 PVDM2s
Throwing some PVDM2s in a Cisco 2821 to try out some more voice cards and taking a look at some of the stuff I've been getting lately.
The Serial Port Early Release: Radius Support!
The Serial Port continues their dial-up ISP series by adding RADIUS support!
Early Vid: Expanding my Homelab Dial-up Setup
Let's get a Dreamcast online. This video is all about me learning how to use VIC, or Voice Interface Cards, and combining a bunch of Cisco gear together to get multiple dial-up lines available down here in the basement.Video goes live tomorrow or Friday!
Early Vid: Trying Windows 95 Server Based Setup
This one was quite the slog... and not entirely successful. But pretty fun along the way and I learned a ton about setting up Windows 95 VMs and networking.Video goes live tomorrow afternoon!
Windows 95 Server-Based Setup
I found a copy of Microsoft Windows 95 Resource Kit at a thrift store last weekend and it had a fascinating chapter: "Server-Based Setup." It turns out Windows 95 had a thin-client-esque mode in which the install could be stored on a Windows server share and clients could boot off just a flo...
Patreon Vid: Full C64 Video
The DIN cables for the disk drive finally came in, let's load up some software. If you saw part one skip to 11:52 for the new stuff; I just exported it all as one video.
Patreon Vid: Commodore 64s Part 1
I wanted to test some C64 software I picked up at VCF East and what I thought would be a two hour ordeal has drug on two days. I'm waiting on some DIN cables from Amazon so I figured I'd split things up and post what I have!
P2P Failures
Trying to get a localearly 2000s P2P network going... without luck. Theoretically Limewire can behave in a serverless fashion (Napster's demise, more on that later), but no luck.I've also tried running Openap, a reverse-engineered version of the Napster server from 2001, and Opennap NG, a fo...
Early Access: The Serial Port - "We brought back the internet's first search engine"
The Serial Port is back with the next installment of their Archie deep-dive, a tool for indexing FTP archives in the early '90s. They do some serious software archaeology to hunt down a version of Archie to get up and running for the first time in many years!
Early Vid: Cisco GigaStack Cluster
Stacking some Cisco 3550 series switches with GigaStack GBIC modules, all managed with the Cisco Cluster Management System from the early 2000s!Video goes live Friday!
Cisco GigaStacks!
Making progress on stacking some Cisco 3550 series switches... with the Cisco Cluster Management Suite software. Which I'm guessing no one actually used, but gotta love those quasi-pixel art renditions of the 3550 gear.
Patreon Vid: Behind the Scenes April 27th, 2024
A future video idea and some eBay pickups.
Early Vid: PCMCIA Cards in Linksys Routers?
I had heard a long time ago about PCMCIA wi-fi cards lurking inside some early routers and decided to take a look. Sure enough... I found one!We'll try to get it working on Windows 7 and some old Ubuntu distros, with somesuccess.Goes live on the channel Friday!
