what i'd like to see sometime is a video on xlv_plexd because the documentation is.. well not the best, and i couldn't fully wrap my head around it. i've always wanted to do a mirrored disk setup which i'd eventually swap out one by one for a future ssd-based solution - without reinstall. it should be possible, the mirrored plex is already done, but i've never had the courage to do a DR test on it.. however, i don't think this is a priority for you these days.. or ever. so these are just my random thoughts.. : )

That PCI slot calls out for a ATI RageXL

From what I’ve researched, people who edited video on the O2 used uncompressed video for speed and quality. They relied on disk arrays and took advantage of the machine’s strengths, like its high bandwidth, to edit without any issues. The cost was sky-high since all that storage was insanely expensive, making it something only accessible for well-paid professional projects.

Past my last comment, this was an awesome episode! I can’t wait to see that sunray!!

Hey Phintage Collector, would you by chance have disk 2 of PC-DOS 6.1 on 5 and a quarter??! The disk is damaged and it’s driving me insane to not find images online!

I wrote an update and installation utility for MS-DOS. It is the same as for RHEL systems. More here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/l6CWi4Swe9d0jZo

no AIX fun then? : )

I tossed my SunFire V100 last year. I still had its manual and everything. It was a PITA to boot and recompiling things for SPARC got old fast.

Very interesting video. Solaris was quite a interesting beast - as a younger tech nerd I actually wanted to try it out. I think the kernel panic handler even outputs a dead ASCII cow when the kernel panics along the lines "Your system ate a SPARC and crashed. Ugh!" when the system encountered a panic.

(19:36) Sun offering extra desktop environments in the repository on one of their Solaris supplemental install disc reminded me of SGI having CDE as an optional extra installed from a repository on one of the IRIX install discs. The versions of GNOME 1.4 and KDE 2.2 that you showed appeared to be stock or almost completely stock, as I've seen the same setups out of the box on Debian 3.0, albeit customised slightly further to add links to Debian's website on the desktops if I recall correctly.

Thanks!

Wow! Amazing demo of the HP 200lX.

a couple of weeks ago just out of curiosity I unzipped the same file on my SunFire V120 with the 650MHz Ultrasparc IIe on a SCSI HDD. It took 31,7 seconds On my AMD Athlon 700MHz system with a sata ssd via a sata to ide adapter that I compared it to it took 50,69 seconds. I mean sure the sparc is a couple of months younger than the athlon but it is substantially faster. You can also really feel it when running X11 applications of the time.

Nice machine!

What's old is new again.

Sun Microsystems machines look so fascinating, and I'm glad that you're showing some of them in your videos!

I used to support these professionally, so of course I now feel quite old. (No, I won't give you free tech support! 🙂

Small nitpick at 2:11. 50 Terabytes is 50TB, not 50TiB like the subtitles say. One is 50000 Gigabyte, the other is 54975.6 GB.

Wow yes Star office, i remember using this back in the day as our office had a PC with Solaris on it so I remember seeing this then. Thanks for sharing this.

Man, not missing the Solaris text installer.

Tunneling X11 over SSH brought back some memories from 2009 :) I used it to use my home Linux box running Ubuntu 8.10 from my 2006 Mac mini at the flat I was renting during that time.

make that beast run some business oriented java apps as god intended! lol. in any case, cool review. reminds me of clabretro

Ah, StarOffice, the precursor to OpenOffice, and in turn, LibreOffice. Getting into that history will be quite fascinating.

2:11.. 50 TeraBytes in 2002 must have been an incredible capacity.

At @20:53 thank you for the glimpse at Sun's implementation of Xfce! That desktop environment has come a long way from that stage. Thank you for the glimpse back at Unix in the 1990's. 😎

All these various platforms... and we ended up with x86 everywhere. Is the same fate for RISC-V?

In the 80's, I paid $199 for the C64, $220 for the 1541 disc drive. I didn't get the CP/M, but I remember it being $99.

Being a geeky computer kid in the early 90's I would cycle to the Vobis shop in Eindhoven every weekend to drool over the Colani 486 DX66

I have experienced several such networks based on 10base2 at school and in companies. the biggest fun and hell were the networks we built at LAN parties (even though it wasn't called that yet). The slightest mistake caused the entire network to stop working. Then we crawled on the ground looking for who kicked the cable or where there is a bad contact.

Could you make a video about the fact that the first version of Win 95 offered immediately after installation the option that the default user interface would be the one from Win 3.11 and how it worked with such a system if the user accepted it.

I remember that some programs stopped working for me after installing NewShell. They had a problem with the system reporting as NT4 but not providing the same support. It usually ended with an error message saying what is missing. I tried to fix it by copying the files from NT4 but it didn't help. It doesn't have some features. So I uninstalled newshell and everything worked correctly again.

fun content, i am sure your channel will grow

Thank you this is amazing. Can you point me to the right cable to use with my HDMI capable laptop?

Not exactly a bug, but I have a 32-bit, single-core AMD Athlon 2900. Systemax (mail order) bundled various motherboards with this CPU and I bought one. Some of the motherboards were not able to use the 2900 to its fullest speed. My bundle did. I still have that system in my basement.

Cool

I have a Packard Bell with an Intel 486SX2-50.

Now attach a 1000-line receiving modem to it, for that full authentic 1999 internets

Wow, never knew there was a Commodore laptop! And Whoduthunkit, the damn thing is an IBM clone!

The reason Intel didn't launch the SX line until 1991 is because their 386 line was still filling that niche. Why would they flood a market they already controlled with cut down CPUs that still cost as much to produce as their flagship parts? It makes no sense to throw a 486 branded CPU into the budget market unless you don't control that market anymore. IMO, they waited till '91 because they didn't want to lose sales higher up the product stack. Let's face it, most people back then didn't know the difference between an SX and a DX, all they cared about was "I have a 486" and maybe it's clock speed. Intel knew this and knew the much lower margin SX would outsell their flagship DX parts. I would guess that by '91 they had probably largely recouped the cost of the new fab process, as well as improved it's efficiency, and could afford to bring 486 to the budget market with yields now at their peek and thus production costs being lower. You have to look at these things from the perspective of the manufacturer. An SX33 would cost the same as a DX33 early in the production run. The entire DX range were all made on the same CPU fab, DX20 - DX50, they would have simply binned the lowest performing CPUs as DX20 and the highest as DX50. That is already 4 bins, 20, 25, 33 and 50, each step down is a profit slash while the production cost remains the same for all. This is why manufacturers would hold off introducing cut down models as long as possible. Binning a 20mhz DX allows you to sell off weaker binned parts, it's efficient, but cutting it down further and calling it an SX with a larger price slash is senseless unless the market requires it.

4:25 someone go back in time and tell brownshirt that VR is still crap!

i have a sx2-50 in my collection. havent tried it yet. I never came across one in the wild in the 90s

8 MiB in 1983 was... unfathomably huge outside of the biggest corporate and university IT departments! My first HDD was only 5 MiB and that was a mind boggling amount of space at the time.