Out at the rock club with the crew in about 2001. I can't believe we used to take a 30 minute bus ride to the city whilst dressed up like this.2yr ⋅ Hobthrust ⋅ r/blunderyears
1998, and I was setting off fireworks that I'd inserted into stuffed toys. I now have more hair coming out of my ears than on my head.2yr ⋅ Hobthrust ⋅ r/blunderyears
Popped to the pub for my traditional Friday pint after work - suppose I'll have to try this one.9mo ⋅ Hobthrust ⋅ r/linuxmasterrace
Found my old 486 in storage but the hard disk failed. Tried it with a Linux floppy, as you can see it was very excited to boot for the first time in 20 years.4yr ⋅ Hobthrust ⋅ r/linux
Well, I've got to admire the ambition of the sensors in my work computer...10mo ⋅ Hobthrust ⋅ r/linuxmasterrace
Gfx card in lab PC blew, only spare was low profile - well, I don't need the display port anyway.3yr ⋅ Hobthrust ⋅ r/techsupportmacgyver
Ancient PC has no onboard BIOS battery, just a connector for an external pack. 5 minutes rummage in the bits box and we're in business. (Battery not included).4yr ⋅ Hobthrust ⋅ r/techsupportmacgyver
Peltier cloud chamber I built for science outreach helping me get through the day.3yr ⋅ Hobthrust ⋅ r/techsupportmacgyver
Linus Torvalds has just moved to a Threadripper PC but here's his old Ambra Sprinta 486 that he used 1993-1994. On display in the museum at the University of Helsinki.4yr ⋅ Hobthrust ⋅ r/linux
Good news: Gentoo works on my ancient IBM Valuepoint 486SX, using FPU emulation, 40MB RAM. 4.14.185 kernel. Boot took about an hour! Bad news is I just blew out the case with compressed air and sadly it won't POST any more, so if anyone has a spare board...4yr ⋅ Hobthrust ⋅ r/linux
My old 486 from school. I took this out of a box in the garage, checked it over and powered it up for the first time in 20 years. It went into Windows 95 once then the disk failed. Thinking about trying to put a lightweight Linux / BSD on it for fun. Originally ran Win 3.11.4yr ⋅ Hobthrust ⋅ r/retrobattlestations
At work in the repair shop in about 2003/4. Check out all the modern battlestations!4yr ⋅ Hobthrust ⋅ r/retrobattlestations
I was chatting to one of the electronics techs at work about the 486 I'm rebuilding and he dragged these out of a drawer and donated them. Never seen one before, but that'll make for a great Windows 3.11 install!4yr ⋅ Hobthrust ⋅ r/vintagecomputing
My optical drive failed (yes I still use it) so I grabbed an old one from a pile of spares. Imagine my surprise when the PC started booting up into LMDE - there was a disk in the drive from about 2011!4yr ⋅ Hobthrust ⋅ r/linuxmint
A friend of mine found an old price list from our local computer shop, dated about 2001.2yr ⋅ Hobthrust ⋅ r/VintageComputers
My old 486 from school. I took this out of a box in the garage, checked it over and powered it up for the first time in 20 years. It went into Windows 95 once then the disk failed. Thinking about trying to put a lightweight Linux / BSD on it for fun. Originally ran Win 3.11.4yr ⋅ Hobthrust ⋅ r/VintageComputers
Decided to treat myself to a T440p, got a few upgrades to go into it. Started Gentoo installation, here it is next to the old X60 which is still going well.1yr ⋅ Hobthrust ⋅ r/thinkpad
Thinkpad X60 I saved when it was being thrown away. Put in a spare SSD and some RAM and built Gentoo with moderate optimisations. Runs quite nicely!2yr ⋅ Hobthrust ⋅ r/Gentoo
Got soaked going to work this morning, no heating in the office. Solution: side off PC, emerge -auDN @world, dry shirt.3yr ⋅ Hobthrust ⋅ r/linuxmasterrace
Helping a buddy out; an arts group that have taken over an empty department store and want the network setting up. This is what the company left in the main comms room when they moved out. Building has CAT5, thinwire, RS232...4yr ⋅ Hobthrust ⋅ r/cablefail
Always a bit nerve-wracking - found a couple of working floppies though. (2005-ish Dell).2yr ⋅ Hobthrust ⋅ r/vintagecomputing
Rescued this LaserJet from a skip about 10 years ago. Today I needed to print a boarding card in a hurry and the modern printer ran out of toner so I dug the old brute out of the attic, hooked up the old JetDirect to my XP Pentium 4 machine, and she worked straight away!4yr ⋅ Hobthrust ⋅ r/VintageComputers
Thinkpad X60 I saved when it was being thrown away. Put in a spare SSD and some RAM and built Gentoo with moderate optimisations. Runs quite nicely!2yr ⋅ Hobthrust ⋅ r/thinkpad
Absolute Piledriver supremacy. Not sure why Open Hardware Monitor is now reporting these clocks...2yr ⋅ Hobthrust ⋅ r/pcmasterrace
Graphics card is too big for the case. Speakers are taped to the wall because there's asbestos in there so I can't drill it.3yr ⋅ Hobthrust ⋅ r/shittybattlestations
I think Sam just jumped into this antique computer I'm trying to boot...4yr ⋅ Hobthrust ⋅ r/QuantumLeap
