r/vintagecomputing

I like that sweater vest.

In Iron man 1 while they are booting up the suit for the first time, there’s this laptop and I’m very curious what I could be ? Seems like a Toshiba satellite to me but what does y’all think?

Currently I have 99Mhz out of 133 because my board only seems to multiply by 3 instead of the required 4. I have two options I can bump the bus speed to 40 to 120Mhz (a speed I know is stable with my VLB Video Card) or I can bump it to 50 for 150Mhz.

So my question is would bumping it to 50 be reasonable or would it damage the VLB Card, Cache or CPU?

Is there another way to get closer to or slightly above the advertised speed of 133mhz without causing damage?

Also, I know that this CPU is stable at 160mhz because it was tested by the seller before I bought it but without the 4x Multiplier on my Board will it ever be possible to get even close to that without reasonable risk?

If you have experience with this please help me out and leave a comment. Thank you in advance.

One of my favorite adventure games from my youth.

Couldn't let the ET6000 hit the bin, and grabbed the Riva 128 too cause it was kind of the card that saved Nvidia.

I built a Synchronet BBS (v3.21, on EC2) for NaClCON 2026, a new con in Carolina Beach, NC focused on the history of hacking. May 31 to June 2, 2026. Tagline: Play Hard. Hack Harder.

Fair warning: I am very new to this and have absolutely no idea what I'm doing, so please be gentle. I'm posting here because I'd rather learn from people who've actually run boards than keep guessing.

• Telnet: naclconbbs.net port 23
• SSH: naclconbbs.net port 2222
• Repo: https://github.com/foodbark/naclcon-bbs

What's there now:

• Synchronet Classic + Deuce's Lightbar Shell, reskinned in a NaClCON magenta/hot-pink/yellow palette
• Terminal-adaptive ANSI splash art (wide art for big terminals, narrow for 80-col)
• Per-speaker message threads + speaker list bulletin
• The Pelican, a sassy southern coastal peli-hen chatbot (1-on-1 and multinode). Her canon is every issue of Phrack, the Rainbow Series, The Hacker's Manifesto, and Neuromancer. She chimes in by name or when the channel is quiet.
• Security hardening writeup in the README including the story of "The Jamaican," a TLS-downgrade scriptkiddy who got silently .can'd on day one

Where I could use help:

• Sysops willing to link up. Leaning toward fsxNet, open to FidoNet/DoveNet, happy to be talked into something else.
• Door game recommendations. Planning on LORD + TradeWars 2002 at minimum, curious what else people would actually play at a hacker con.
• Eyes on the repo, especially the fail2ban filters, the SSH_ANYAUTH workaround I'm not happy about (see README), and anything that looks off in the JS mods.
• People to seed the message bases. Hacker history, old-school exploit war stories, con talk, whatever.
• ANSI artists. Always.

Dial in, poke around, leave feedback in the message bases, message me here, or open an issue. Thanks!

I was able to get myself second Apple Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh. Unfortunately, it was packed poorly. It didn't survive the journey. The plastic was broken, the screen shattered. The computer won't boot 😞

Fun Fact:

The elderly person who sold me this computer asked a friendly computer repair shop to help with packing and shipping it. I'm increasingly getting the impression that it wasn't packaged that way by accident... So, dear Dib*** from France. Shame on you!

I found more stuff, a Terratec Maestro 32/96, a Sound Blaster PCI 128 and VHSs that used to teach the teachers how to use MS Word and Excel when it was a new thing back then (I handled everything well, sorry for last time again)

I remember installing this the first time. I think I downloaded it from Exec-PC. A graphical (visual?) file manager made so much sense.

Gotta go off topic for those born after 1990.

Exec-PC was a BBS / bulletin board system - basically the internet, but much smaller. You could upload/download files, send messages, view por..images, and much more. You needed a subscription, a phone line that you could use for hours, and a modem (yup, the dee, doodle-doodle-doo-dee-scratchy-him-hem-boo-bop sounding thingy).

Windows 3 was also mind blowing, though I had seen Macintosh and a few other graphical OSes. Windows 3 ran on top of DOS. It wasn't an operating system on its own.

I'm guessing some sort of terminal, but perhaps an early computer?

I can not find this anywhere. AI has failed me. I find the game for Atari 2600, 5200, Colecovision, Intellivision - but all of them have the insert on the short end of the cartridge. What is it for or did someone slap just slap this sticker on a Nintendo cartridge???