Bringing an IBM PS/2 Model 50Z back from the dead. Trying out a McIDE-CF for the first time, getting PC-DOS 6.1 installed, and of course another token ring card failure.
I'm a really big fan...
A bunch of IBM gear has shown up the past 24 hours, let's unbox it.
2025-03-29 02:57:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Finally getting Windows NT 4.0 installed on the Compaq DL-380. It took a lot of input from you all and others, but I win in the end. Then lose big time by throwing a token ring card in.
Vide...
Taking a look at another PS/2 55SX.
2025-03-21 04:12:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Utterly failing to get Windows NT 4.0 installed on a Compaq Proliant DL-380 Gen 1... but hopefully it's a fun ride anyway. I suspect I'm very close and missing something small, but unfortunately I ...
2025-03-20 13:30:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Bringing an IBM PS/2 Model 55SX back to life, with some future token ring RIPL plans!
Video going live on the channel Friday.
2025-02-27 02:27:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Next video will be getting this 55SX into fighting shape. In a follow up video I'll try to boot it over a token ring network with IBM's Remote Initial Program Load!
2025-02-26 06:12:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Installing some new shelves in the workshop and discussing some other future improvements!
2025-02-17 21:48:35 +0000 UTC View Post
I've made an absolute mess down here filming the last few videos so I've been organizing the shop all day. I've come up with a bunch of quality-of-life changes, particularly with my main workstatio...
2025-02-17 03:00:23 +0000 UTC View Post
First of many token ring videos! I cover a lot of ground, setting up some Windows 95 machines and experimenting with some Cisco token ring port adapters, but don't quite get it workin...
2025-02-05 18:30:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Consolidating my homelab dial-up setup from a Cisco 2911 and 2600 into a single Cisco 3725, complete with 8-port analog modem card! We get a blistering 14.4Kbps... but hey, that's all I ever got ha...
2025-01-30 02:37:06 +0000 UTC View Post
I can't guarantee it's the next video, but 2025 is the year of clabretro token ring. MAU from eBay incoming.
2025-01-25 04:53:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Finally figured out why I couldn't dial into a Cisco 2509's AUX port using USR modems. Who had their money on... cabling?
2025-01-23 05:35:43 +0000 UTC View Post
A very early pre-release — I'm out of town for a long weekend so I wanted to get ahead of it. Video goes live Friday!
This one was an adventure — trust me when I say I tested ...
Ordered a pristine (but probably inoperable) Buffalo TeraStation NAS on eBay and, well... you'll see what happened to it.
2025-01-12 00:36:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Snuck in one last video for 2024 and, that's right, it's about V.35 cables. We'll get a couple Cisco routers on either end of some CSU/DSUs, using the V.35 cables of course, and get them talking ov...
2024-12-30 05:17:38 +0000 UTC View Post
The saga comes to an end, finally able to stack two Nortel BPS 2000s!
Happy holidays!
There's some blank video between 5:22 and 5:42, no missing footage just a gap in the timeline I m...
Learning how to set up port mirroring on a Cisco 2950 and using it to troubleshoot a Cisco Cache Engine.
Video goes live Friday!
Revisiting a ChannelPlus Caller ID video overlay device, but this time feeding some real Caller ID info into it via some Cisco gear!
Goes live tomorrow!
Getting Solaris 8 installed (well... kind of) on a Sun Fire V100 via JumpStart from a Solaris 10 VM. I want to use this V100 as a dedicated physical JumpStart server in the retro rack.
Video...
Taking a look at Cisco CE-505 I've never been able to get booting properly. Let me know if you have any ideas!
2024-12-02 00:12:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Taking a look at a Linksys Wireless-B "Internet Video Camera" from the early 2000s! This thing was super fun to play around with and I think it would've been pretty impressive back in the day.
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Quick video going over some new gear!
2024-11-07 16:30:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Diving into this new in box Sun Ray 150 for an upcoming video. Haven't powered it up yet but it's looking really promising.
A very odd side note about it, this unit belonged to a company cal...
After months of overthinking it, I finally dove in this weekend and just built the thing. Wrapping up a video (the first of many) covering the initial build out, pre-release coming very soon!
I've always been fascinated by Iomega, the Zip 100 drives of course being my first experience with them back in the day. But they made a ton of other stuff. I used to have a really big collection o...
2024-10-11 03:45:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Getting a CacheFlow SA-725 from 2001 up and working, along with a somewhat-faithful recreation of a load test Network World did when they reviewed this thing back in the day.
Live on the cha...
I've been busy today. Follow along as I fail once again to stack these things. But, we will indeed get them running the same version of software and see what that whole process is like!
2024-09-29 23:46:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Taking a look at stuff I've picked up recently on eBay and at VCF Midwest, as well as some channel donations.
I started archiving those Novell disks and it looks like they're training and te...
Taking a look at a pair of Nortel Networks Business Policy 2000 switches from 2001. Software will ultimately thwart our stack attempts, but it was fun looking over these units and getting them runn...
2024-09-25 15:04:58 +0000 UTC View Post