Connecting to the Internet from 1987!

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The Parallel Port

Күн бұрын

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@truckerallikatuk Ай бұрын

People live without "Prompt $p$g" ???? How can you live like that?

@buggyruy1 3 күн бұрын

what is that?

@aaaalex1994 Ай бұрын

If the memory doesn't fail me, MCGA is compatible with 640x480 monochrome and 320x200x256 colors... I think.

@greenaum Ай бұрын

Little tip - when you open a jumper, hang it on to just one of the pins. So it's not connected, but handily there if you need it in the future. Possible our guy knows that and just removed them for the sake of the video.

@TeslaTales59 Ай бұрын

I do remember setting those jumpers- mostly for IRQs! In those days, used a lot of HP and 3Com NICs.

@markpriceful Ай бұрын

edlin skillz paid off!

@JeffRAllenCH 15 күн бұрын

ed(1) is the standard text editor.

@mista_jamaican Ай бұрын

These are based on TTL so pre CMOS. I was a chip level board tech during this era. I highly recommend you start using anti-static protection. If not, one day you'll pick up a CMOS board, zap it, and it's bye bye board. Try finding the early chips to fix it. None of the early CMOS chips had schottky diode protection.

@cptcrogge Ай бұрын

I still have a 286 laptop which I connected to the internet a long time ago, it was actually very usable for IRC chats. Tricky was the actual connection, I had to use an LPT LAN adapter.

@DieselDragon Ай бұрын

This is making me *really* regret throwing my PS/2 and all those 3Com NICs all those years ago! Though even if I still had them, making content on them would be extremely difficult: For childhood reasons I have very little confidence, anxiety levels higher than the CN Tower, and I'm not attractive enough to make content that people would want to watch! 😞 But aye; Even knowing that a web server simply handles requests and spits bytes out in reply, I would never once have believed an 8088 could do the job, even for the really basic web pages of the early 90s! Top marks for this, fella! 🖥️💯👍 Now, for the next challenge: What happens when you point Micronet towards... _Drumroll..._ 🥁 *...Facebook?* 😱🔥😂

@glhughes Ай бұрын

Your test with mTCP is using a much smaller document (22x smaller), and that will impact request times given the slowness of the machine. Would be great to see a comparison with the same content being served in both. I'm guessing mTCP still wins out but it might be a closer race.

@TheParallelPort Ай бұрын

Great point.. I didn't think it would make much of a difference at the time, but didn't really consider just how slow the machine is. I'll give ez-nos2 another try with the smaller file to see if there's a noticeable difference. Thank you!

@oblitum 7 күн бұрын

My year 😍

@memadmax69 Ай бұрын

I remember these PS/2 computers. I had one of the monitors and it was just a bit finicky to start: You had to use a hairdryer to warm it up before it would fire up lol

@TheParallelPort Ай бұрын

Hahah

@juanstdio Ай бұрын

I didn't know the existance of apache benchmark, I'm going to use it to test my web servers!! amazing video

@marsovac Ай бұрын

usually in today web apps you dont really need to test the web servers since the bottleneck won't be serving the pages but running the apps that it hosts, so expect the javascript side or the application or database side to be the bottleneck for users.

@TradieTrev Ай бұрын

This brings me good memories of working at computer shop in 2000 we'd get these old girls in (sorry if that offends, I just like treating electronics as an object of satisfaction) my boss was tripped out how I managed to boot load win95 off a network server for a fast install. He always did things manually.

@c1ph3rpunk Ай бұрын

I still have a storage bin of parts from the 80’s and 90’s, when I’d work on a machine, or retire one, I’d scavenge or keep stuff in it. There must be 5000 jumpers in it.

@alexevansuk Ай бұрын

Hardware based settings need to make a comeback.

@David_Phantom Ай бұрын

Surprised you didn't ftp over a better text editor while you were at it. Really cool job! Would be fun to see what the most complex website you can host on the machine is. I'd imagine it would have to be only html and css based. Basically everything done on the client side. Though I bet you could host some basic imagines. Also, image using it as a smart home controller like thing? Using simple GET and POST requests on a webpage, and then using the serial port to send commands to something? I mean, the only reason that would be cool is because it's an old machine, but that's a good enough reason for me! There is, for some reason, python for DOS which might be something you could use. I'd imagine it would run pretty poorly, but still. Basically, forcing it to do things it was never intended to do is always fun!

@marsovac Ай бұрын

python is one of the slowest languages on the planet for the machine code it produces, and it also has a complex and slow interpreter. Don't think it would fit well on an 8086.

@movax20h Ай бұрын

Pretty cool. Not too complex. I am bit surprised tho that it only gets 1-2KB/s. This is like 2 packets per second. Even that CPU should do better. I suspect some issues in software not implemented too well.

@DieselDragon Ай бұрын

Bear in mind this is a 16-bit system and memory is probably working in 512 byte pages, so it's working to much more constrictive limitations compared to any machine today! I'd say 2-4KB/s on a 8088 machine with 384K RAM, several TSR applications and the NIC stack on top is pretty darn awesome! 💯