Jonathan Pallant
thejpster.org.uk
Jonathan Pallant
@thejpster.org.uk
Rust Trainer and Developer, retrocomputing enthusiast
bzflag? I can’t get it to run.
November 16, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Same install CD ;) Fat binaries!
November 15, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Hard to say. I just observe 90% of pings getting lost.
November 15, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Switch? Ah ha ha. It’s a 24 port 10base2 hub with BNC uplink :)
November 15, 2025 at 11:51 AM
I’m barely at KILLING SPREE level
November 14, 2025 at 8:54 PM
There's also a video if you just want some Slow TV (and wobbly hand-cam footage) of a 68K UNIX box booting into life.

youtu.be/xioMIX66TdA
Network-booting HP-UX 9 and playing Columns, on a 68K UNIX Workstation
YouTube video by Jonathan Pallant
youtu.be
November 9, 2025 at 9:50 PM
People will drive 20 minutes to save $5 on a tank of gas but won’t spend an hour to save $100 on their car insurance or a day to save $1000 on their mortgage deal.
November 7, 2025 at 2:32 PM
So maybe 20m to 100m USD, assuming 100k/year/engineer. A bargain.

And nowhere remotely close to what is being spaffed up the wall (a UK Prime Minister once said that) on the current nonsense-du-jour.
November 6, 2025 at 10:24 PM
I wonder what the global collective "we" have spent on Rust so far?
November 6, 2025 at 8:05 PM
And the hub works! Which means I can telnet from my Linux desktop into my HP 9000 Model 705 running HP-UX 9. This is much nicer than having to keep going over to the other desk to poke at it, and it makes it much easier to put files on it. Before I was making ISO files and putting them on a BlueSCI.
November 6, 2025 at 7:57 PM
talking past each other, damnit.

I swear the iPhone keyboard is getting worse.
November 4, 2025 at 9:19 AM