ARM'd and dangerous: kzimmermann takes on the #OldComputerChallenge 2025 with nothing but a Raspberry Pi Model B.

https://kzimmermann.0x.no/articles/old_computer_challenge_2025.html

Yes, it's late - but it's done. Sorry for the delay, I was having too much fun learning #NetBSD, I guess :D

New #blog post!

OCC: Rebuilding my first PC

#retrocomputing #oldcomputerchallenge

https://haewyr.mataroa.blog/blog/occ-rebuilding-my-first-pc/

I spend a week with the Sony Vaio VGN-TX2XP from 2006 and it was surprisingly nice (except for some audio stuff). I wrote about it on my blog: https://blog.not-outdated.com/entries/vaiovgntx2xp.html

(also why I poofed, didn't use my smartphone much and the website is slow on older machines)

I've finalized the #oldcomputerchallenge write-up and updated the post.

https://www.talibov.xyz/posts/occ2025/

Key learning from the exercise:

1. That the modern web is the biggest constrain is not a meme
2. More power to Emacs, it's very transferable
3. I still don't know how do I get to South America once the internment starts.

https://screwlisp.small-web.org/occ/25/jul18.txt

#oldComputerChallenge

really I just read mdh's oldComputerChallenge markwrites. https://appdot.net/@mdhughes/114856809902955354

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Maybe old computer challenge is not best viewed as an experience of
retro hardware or software, but as a forward compatible receiving
point for hyperlinks from the past.

#oldComputerChallenge
https://screwlisp.small-web.org/occ/25/jul17.txt
In which I dig up my cryptic reference to rpg's ( #lisp )
The Structure of a Programming
Language
Revolution
's
reference to Teitelman's thesis on advice in the 60s, while already tired from writing my other article today.

#oldcomputerchallenge day 3 is uploaded

gemini://gemini.jasonsanta.xyz:1965/gemlog/occ-2025/occ-day-3.gmi

I have included steps on how to get an exfat drive to work on FreeBSD.

Freebsd with i3 on my Acer Aspire 7720 screenshot for #oldcomputerchallenge

Posting from masto9 on my AMD K6-2! #oldcomputerchallenge #retrocomputing

Leaving #oldcomputerchallenge early because transphobic behavior in the promoted IRC. Turns out the hardest part of a communal dated hardware challenge is dated beliefs.

if #oldcomputerchallenge folks are congregating on an IRC channel where it isn't the fashion to call people against using slurs "triggered snowflakes" please let me know! i'd love a new channel to hang out in

New blog post:

OCC 2025 - I'm back on ICQ
http://82mhz.net/posts/2025/07/occ-2025-i-m-back-on-icq/

#oldComputerChallenge for 16 July.

https://screwlisp.small-web.org/occ/25/jul16.txt

Mostly sharing some notes from @lambdacalculus ' own #retrocomputing etc we heard on today's episode : (download peertube link at https://gamerplus.org/@screwlisp/114859955237187501 ).

Viz Old computer Challenge:
http://occ.deadnet.se/

#lispyGopherClimate w/ 500 hats of LambdaCalculus #HOPE_16 #PHREAKNIC previews #lisp #oldcomputerchallenge

https://communitymedia.video/videos/watch/8f0e5d5f-18d5-43c7-bfb2-4a866a59be0c

#hackThePlanet
#lispyGopherClimate #interview with 500 hats of @lambdacalculus
Their kofi: https://ko-fi.com/lambdacalculus

https://communitymedia.video/w/iEzEkc2SPuL5twaSnTEEq5 #archive

of #DOOM #redstaros #piratebox fame

Previewing their
#phreakNIC #technology #hacker
#HOPE #HOPE_16
talks!

Also #oldComputerChallenge happening RIGHT NOW https://screwlisp.small-web.org/occ/25/jul15.txt (I'm doing #xemacs emacs)

LambdaCalculus knows #emacs #lisp ...! And that's where it began then #commonLisp #CCL on the #macintosh

@dougmerritt @mdhughes @hairylarry

For those in the #OldComputerChallenge in need for a lightweight #web browser, #Dillo can be built from source in under 10 minutes from old CPUs (let us know otherwise).

We always welcome new pictures for the gallery: https://dillo-browser.github.io/gallery/