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The Serial Port
United States
Приєднався 16 січ 2023
The Serial Port is a virtual museum that highlights technology and people we find interesting from years gone by. We strive to preserve history of all types, both physical and digital as well as through the innumerable stories of the people that lived it.
Got some retro gear to donate? Get in touch with us over email (see below "For business inquiries") or www.serialport.org
Got some retro gear to donate? Get in touch with us over email (see below "For business inquiries") or www.serialport.org
Publishing web pages at VCF East 2024
We headed up to Wall, NJ for VCF East 2024! This was our first year exhibiting and we brought along a complete web page pipeline from Microsoft FrontPage 98 to the Cobalt RaQ server appliance.
Check out the Unofficial Guide we made for VCF East 2024... 1998 style: raq.serialport.org/vcfeast2024/
Want more content like this? Support our mission! Send us a Super Thanks and check out our Patreon + Discord community: www.patreon.com/serialport
Got some retro gear you want to donate? Get in touch with us at serialport.org.
Our second channel: www.youtube.com/@theparallelport
Music: I'm So by Andrew Applepie
soundcloud.com/andrewapplepie/im-so
Check out the Unofficial Guide we made for VCF East 2024... 1998 style: raq.serialport.org/vcfeast2024/
Want more content like this? Support our mission! Send us a Super Thanks and check out our Patreon + Discord community: www.patreon.com/serialport
Got some retro gear you want to donate? Get in touch with us at serialport.org.
Our second channel: www.youtube.com/@theparallelport
Music: I'm So by Andrew Applepie
soundcloud.com/andrewapplepie/im-so
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How the internet became searchable
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The curious story of how a college student wrote a shell script and ended up changing the Internet. We take a look at the anonymous FTP search engine called Archie, and find out how it disappeared just as quickly as it arrived. Want more content like this? Support our mission! Send us a Super Thanks and check out our Patreon Discord community: www.patreon.com/serialport Got some retro gear you ...
Broken to BBS: A Dell 286 Restoration
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We restore Dell's second-ever PC model: the PC's Limited 286. There are some... sparks along the way, but we cap it off with a call into an important BBS that has been in operation since 1994. Want more content like this? Support our mission! Send us a Super Thanks and check out our Patreon Discord community: www.patreon.com/serialport Got some retro gear you want to donate? Get in touch with u...
NO WIRES: How the Apple Airport Changed Everything
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"No wires." This simple phrase from Steve Jobs during Apple Airport's debut in 1999 contained more than a decade of history behind it. Follow along as we chart the perilous and unbelievable journey of wireless networking, and hear from the people that were there during it all. Want more content like this? Support our mission! Send us a Super Thanks and check out our Patreon Discord community: w...
Is our ISP ready for a beta test? - ISP Series Episode 5
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We finish out our terminal server showdown with our last two entries: the Cyclades TS2000 and Livingston Portmaster 2E. And will we find out if we're finally ready to beta test our retro ISP? Want more content like this? Support our mission! Send us a Super Thanks and check out our Patreon Discord community: www.patreon.com/serialport Got some retro gear you want to donate? Get in touch with us...
Epic Terminal Server Showdown! - ISP Series Episode 4
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How do you connect dozens of modems to your 90s ISP? We embark on a mission to find out by comprehensively evaluating terminal servers in this epic two-part special. In this episode we check out the Xyplex MaxServer 1620 and the Xylogics Micro Annex XL. We also hear from Brian Lloyd, one of the creators of the Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) that helped usher in the dial-up age. Want more content...
Experiencing VCFMW 2023: A quick recap
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Our first Vintage Computer Festival Midwest and hopefully not our last! We take a quick recap of an amazing experience filled with great people and vintage tech. Full UA-cam panel talk: ua-cam.com/video/9tM 9zgjUc/v-deo.html VCFMW channel: @VCFMW Want more content like this? Support our mission! Send us a Super Thanks and check out our Patreon Discord community: www.patreon.com/serialport
1.5Mbps of pure '90s: Setting up a T-1 today - ISP Series Episode 3
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We've got the need for speed like it's 1993. We explore the legendary T1 connection, and work on getting our very own for the ISP. The next step is getting our router online and starting up BGP to announce our presence to the Internet. Want more content like this? Support our mission! Send us a Super Thanks and check out our Patreon Discord community: www.patreon.com/serialport #90s #internet #...
SAVING a 30-year old Sun workstation! - ISP Series Episode 2
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While we may have left on a cliffhanger in our first ISP episode, this might be our most extensive video to date. We get up close with the SPARCclassic, and delve into the hardware and software that will power our early-90s ISP. Want more content like this? Support our mission! Send us a Super Thanks and check out our Patreon Discord community: www.patreon.com/serialport #90s #internet #technol...
How To Start An ISP (like it's 1993)
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Ever wonder how a dial-up ISP from the 90s actually worked? We did, so to find out, we decided to start our very own dial-up ISP... like it's 1993! Come along as we hear from Pete Ashdown, the founder of XMission, one of the earliest commercial ISPs in the United States that's still going strong today. We also find out what hardware we'll need, but will our journey end before it even gets start...
THE UNTOLD STORY: How the PIX Firewall and NAT Saved the Internet
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If you've accessed the Internet in the past two decades, chances are you've done so through a network address translation (NAT) device. Where did it come from? Join us as we hear the unbelievable story first hand from the pioneers that were making it happen, and how the Internet itself was changed forever. Want more content like this? Support our channel! Patreon Discord community: www.patreon....
AMBRA: Epic Restoration of IBM's Forgotten Child
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We're back at it with the Ambra T466I/VL. We go from a pile of dusty parts to a functional, restored system complete with the original Ambra restore diskettes! We get to check out the Windows 3.1 interface at a ridiculous resolution, and share our plans for upcoming content. Support our channel! Patreon Discord community: www.patreon.com/serialport 00:00 - Back to the Future 00:34 - Disassembly...
Why you MUST Sign This Internet Guestbook - Cobalt RaQ Part 3
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We made it! The finale of our Cobalt RaQ 3 restoration series. In this installment, we battle through some issues getting the original software restored. At long last, we finally get to see what we've all been waiting for: the RaQ hosting an actual website! We also share some BIG announcements for the channel you don't want to miss! Visit the Serial Port RaQ homepage: raq.serialport.org/ Suppor...
Restoring the Web Server That Changed the Internet - Cobalt RaQ Part 2
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Restoring the Web Server That Changed the Internet - Cobalt RaQ Part 2
This Web Server Changed The Internet: The Cobalt RaQ
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This Web Server Changed The Internet: The Cobalt RaQ
Apple Macintosh Classic II Restoration - Part 2: System 7 installation
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Apple Macintosh Classic II Restoration - Part 2: System 7 installation
Compaq Deskpro EN 300A - Windows NT 4.0 Workstation Install
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Compaq Deskpro EN 300A - Windows NT 4.0 Workstation Install
Apple Macintosh Classic II Restoration - Part 1: Hardware Restoration
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Apple Macintosh Classic II Restoration - Part 1: Hardware Restoration
Compaq Deskpro EN 300A - First power on and boot up
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Compaq Deskpro EN 300A - First power on and boot up
I really dislike the "you've never heard of" titles and I wish they'd stop that, because 99% of the cases I DO know the thing they're talking about. So I ALWAYS give a thumb down and leave. And you should too to stop all that rubbish.
17:26 That actually depends on what you're doing with it. The ET4000 is WAY better for DOS gaming versus that particular VLB card. IIRC, it was LGR who did a video on the Viper VLB and he explained that it's a really low-end VGA core paired with a Windows GUI accelerator - so DOS performance is actually quite poor.
Ha! That's me in yellow in the background at 2:07. I'm talking to Sean of Action Retro.
Clean and lubricate the diskette drive head assembly 'side bar' as well, not just the screw drive.
0:57 3rd person from left is I believe Vinod Khosla. 4th from right : Andy Bechtolsheim ?
Linux dhcp/bootp is brain damaged with regards to usage as a bootp server for Sun machines.... It basically will send ALL data including disk names/directories as ipv4 addresses.... NetBSD should be able to do it.
I had no idea you all were based here in Raleigh. Next time consider going up the Eastern shore via Route 13 if I95 is horrible.
I wish we could have a big netro directory with useful websites which could be browsed in text mode or with really old navigators. No JS, no flash, just text/css.
Waiting on more content guys!!! Keep up the good work!
Whoa, sweet map animation!
Mighty fine exhibit, glad you could make it!
Maybe you should explain what the hell vcf is as well. dont take it for granted that ppl know
Nice choice on that Hakko desoldering gun. Used the same Hakko when I replaced caps in a Sun IPX PSU. Bought two SPARCclassics on ebay and they're my next project.
Ran a Inc 500 company multimillion dollar company off one of the Cobalt Qubes, it did all public web, email and FTP for the company for many many years (close to a decade) with the only down time coming from a memory upgrade and UPS battery failure that needed to be replaced.. Today I have a Qube and 2 Raq's in my personal collection, just because they are very cool pieces of history back in that early childhood of the internet.
I wish we had more of these in Canada to go to. Thanks for sharing
I want a vcf Germany
You had me until Fro** P***.... can't even type it.... LOL. (direct FTP save from UltraEdit into a FreeBSD server at PairNetworks is how I rolled in the 90's ;) Seriously though, that was cool to watch
This is awesome! Can’t wait for some more content!
I've been to Infoage at least a dozen times and have somehow never noticed that structure at 1:06, even though I'm like 95% sure I know exactly where that is. Guess I just never looked up! Awesome exhibit this year!
I spent too much time making table based layouts pre CSS and then using hacks in the transition for non acid compliant browsers. Still have PTSD 😆
This was a great exhibit! Hopefully next time I'll have more time to sneak away from my table and check out cool tables like yours. :)
You Guys keep doing some major cool work! Thank you for taking us along on your journey!
Hey, I didn’t realize you lived in my town :). I’ve made the trek up there a number of times in the past but just wasn’t feeling it this year. I almost wrote FrontPage - worked for a company who was visited by Microsoft when they were looking to buy a web editor. Vermeer had a superior product and that’s who they purchased instead and became FrontPage.
Awesome, I need to visit something like this someday. My grandfather who got me into computing loved talking about computer shows and stuff like this. Also thank you Mark for the help the other day!
"There was loads of merch available" *a shot of a table full of bagged up cables and interface cards*
Soft G for life. Choosy mothers choose gif.
I totally forgot about this. Funny thing is I'm in New Jersey about 30 minutes from Wall. LOL
I really enjoyed seeing all this stuff in person that I have watched hours of videos on. In fact, it was because of the RaQ series that I found a top-spec Qube 3 and started reviving it. "Netro" has become quite interesting to me recently because of this channel and Clabretro's as well. Hope to see you there next year!
Awesome! Now we’ve got to get you out to VCF Southwest!
Awesome I've been using another thing from McGill University called MUSIC/SP. An IBM mainframe OS developed by McGill to be a multiuser computing environment. It's an amazing OS maybe if you get Archie going I can deploy a server on MUSIC/SP I think it would be fun and cool. Let me know If this interests you at all I'm a IBM and networking enthusiasts.
seems very cool there
I never understood why people go to conferences, but I'm glad others enjoy it.
A lot of people like to socialize with others that have similar interests.
nice work fellas. i cut my teeth on computing during this time period ~late 90s
1990's computing is considered vintage now? I feel so very, very old.
Reminds me of my old hand coded html 4.0 geocities! Never used their drag and drop tools, i always wrote all my html 4. I printed the packet of all tags from tge html stds site and it was my bible.
GIF. Say it with me now. GA GA GA GA GA GA-IF!!!! GIF. Thank you.
NEVER!! :D
@@theserialport Lol, I know even the "creator" of the format says JIF... but it doesnt make sense!!! You dont have GIF Peanut butter, you have JIF Peanut butter. Maybe he doesnt realize what a G and J sounds like??? lol... But Since the 90's when I first saw what a GIF is, I was always taught and embeded deap in my brain to call it a GA-IF, not JIF, lol.... The creator has to just be trolling everyone.
@@MikeHarris1984 Back when it was the format you used on CompuServe, I didn’t know anyone that pronounced it with a hard G. It has always been JIF, and all these kids on the Internet these days need to get off my lawn!
@@MikeHarris1984 There are more words (and names, like Gilette) that start with GI- and are pronounced JI-. I don’t have a strong opinion on which pronunciation is better. No, I don’t have a strong opinion about pineapple on pizza either :-P (Not to mention that 99% of the time I just pronounce GIF the Dutch way, which is assured to annoy both camps...)
Struggling not to unsub over this atrocity.
Controversion choice! Everyone knows it's pronounced gif! 😂
Awesome, you recorded my EAS Alert that "old computer levels have reached critical". 😄 I wish I got a chance to stop by your table!
Next time!
You make some cool content, I like that term Netro.
Wow never knew that story . well one is true Apple always was going all in on wireless and are till on that today,
Can confirm early Blue Lightning cpus were built within the 386 design specification and licence. They’re usually a qpf132 that can be connected to 100 or full 132 active pins and will switch between 16 and 32 bit external operation depending on bus width. Rumour is 24 bit also works and ram configuration in some weird boards supports this. Chip is a 3.x volt chip but is rumoured 5v tolerant. 2x and 3x multipliers available and max speed supposedly 33.3x3=100mhz though IBM rated at 3x25=75 official max. Spec of the top BL3 included 16kb cache, 3x multi. All have a handful of additional 486SX instructions for compatibility. Transistor count, package, ALU behaviour still 386 territory. But yes later ones were just 486DX2 chips nothing special.
I like your videos
Xmission!!!
When the smerican military takes a percentage of the number set rather than defining a number, you can always run out.
Early nineties isps, with a janky pc as the single mail server another as web server, the third one with a modem bank routing to the internet. One guy with money, the other with technical ability. I remember those. Or three techs, no startup money amd even older hardware 😂 Especially here in the Netherlands, where we were very early in Europe to connect to the internet, now still a very important internet exchange.
Initial thought 'They're not that old!?' then realising I've used these in 1995 which actually is almlst 30years ago.