Embrace old tech Anons
>>55425667
Never stopped anon
>>55425667
XPEs are cozy as fuck, one of my first retro shitboxes.
>>55425705
Are those hitstix under the laptop?
>>55427721
>>55425705
Image because reasons.
>>55425667
>MORON
What?
>>55425667
>using X86
Pic related, the system I use as a file server.
what's the best distro to install to a couple of 6-7 year old netbooks? Was thinking Lubuntu for a nice balance of speed and functionality
I miss those ugly ass PCMCIA cards. That shit has been pretty much completely replaced by USB and Thunderbolt right?
>>55428435
Void with MATE as the DE
>>55428435
windows xp
Roboting was expensive back then...
>>55428336
>first PA-RISC user I've ever seen on /g/
Is it any good? The architecture seems interesting, would love to pick up one of those real nice looking Visualize workstations and play with HP-sUX
>>55430077
The hardware is built like a tank (Classic HP quality), and the CPU architecture is pretty fast for what it is, especially when compared with hardware from the time period. It also has better Linux support than SPARC or IA64. Some of the older 7xx models can even run the PA-RISC port of NeXTSTEP.
On Linux you won't be able to get X11 video output unless you use a Graffiti (Visualize-EG) or FireGL GPU. Visualize FX GPUs are unsupported on Linux.
The cheapest PA-RISC system you can likely find is the HP 16505A branded version of the HP 712 Workstation. Some of the HP Visualize systems, mainly the C3x00 series can be found for affordable prices as well.
Just be aware, at least the Visualize series runs hot. Both of my "Astro" systems could be considered space heaters, though not to the same extent as my ZX6000 is.
>>55430527
That's pretty damn nice, I'd been thinking of looking around for a 712 or one of those C-class systems, I hear PA-RISC was the shit as far as performance goes too.
How'd you write to the display? I've always wondered how to do that on HP boxes with status displays.
>>55430743
No idea on HP-UX, on Linux it's simply
# echo "hello /g/" > /proc/pdc/lcd
Typing in cat /proc/pdc/lcd as any user will let you know what is on the display right now. Linux doesn't write statuses to the display like HP-UX does, so you can essentially make it display any message you want, similar to the functionality old LaserJets have.
