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!
2024-09-20 19:51:45 +0000 UTC View PostThe Serial Port and I have decided to collaborate even further by extending access to The Serial Port Discord to my $5 and up Patreon tiers! We really hope this will help grow...
2024-09-12 13:42:26 +0000 UTC View Post
What I've picked up (so far) at VCF Midwest. Not sure how I'll get this in the suitcase. TSA might have questions.
2024-09-07 22:53:35 +0000 UTC View Post
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 ...
2024-09-05 03:29:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Taking a look at a PC Magazine issue from June 9th, 1987.
2024-09-03 01:49:36 +0000 UTC View Post
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 ge...
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!
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 T...
2024-08-12 00:29:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Drove to Kansas this weekend to pick up a huge haul of gear, including an IBM RS/6000!
2024-08-04 23:35:58 +0000 UTC View Post
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!
Next video will be about the Sun StorEdge S1 — 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 exci...
2024-07-27 23:21:06 +0000 UTC View Post
By popular demand, trying to get video output from a PIX 520 firewall.
2024-07-25 00:09:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Firing up a Cisco PIX 520, retro rack update, remodel update.
2024-07-24 02:45:28 +0000 UTC View Post
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 wou...
2024-07-13 19:06:15 +0000 UTC View Post
I got the gigabit fiber uplink to the Intel Express stack working... with a surprising combo of hardware and software changes.
2024-07-08 00:47:52 +0000 UTC View Post
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 ne...
2024-06-30 23:11:07 +0000 UTC View Post
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.
2024-06-19 01:36:39 +0000 UTC View Post
The Serial Port continues their dial-up ISP series by adding RADIUS support!
2024-06-14 21:24:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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...
2024-06-12 22:20:19 +0000 UTC View PostThis 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 afternoo...
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 wh...
2024-05-30 04:03:43 +0000 UTC View Post
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.
2024-05-25 15:12:12 +0000 UTC View Post
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 thin...
2024-05-23 03:28:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Trying to get a local early 2000s P2P network going... without luck. Theoretically Limewire can behave in a serverless fashion (Napster's demise, more on that later), but no luck.
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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 ...
2024-05-11 00:42:17 +0000 UTC View Post
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!
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 rendit...
2024-05-07 00:10:37 +0000 UTC View Post
A future video idea and some eBay pickups.
2024-04-27 20:51:35 +0000 UTC View Post
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 so...
