On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 8:03 PM Chris Fala via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Today I replaced the faucet in my mother-in-law's kitchen sink. There is a cast-iron radiator under there. My body aches from playing contortionist. It is a miracle that I got the old one out. The new one looks and works beautifully! Not retro computers, but a satisfying accomplishment.
That's great to hear!
I have a new TFW8b Mini-PET that needs to be built. I also bought Ben Eater's 6502 breadboard computer kit (still unbuilt). Etc., etc., etc.
Keep us updated on progress!
Chris
On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 11:37 AM Jameel Akari via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
On Dec 29, 2020, at 11:17 AM, Andrew Diller <dillera@gmail.com> wrote:
Jameel- the group I work (play?) with has done this for IRIX, and it's very, very cool. Ansible is a perfect way to establish a 'known good
state'
esp on 90's era UNIX workstations as they often payed little attention to things like security. IRIX leaves every installation on every version with no root password. While using something like this requires some basic UNIX knowledge it's still a great way to show new users what to do- as they can examine the playbooks and just execute the commands themselves in order to learn the proper procedures and sequences of things to do for this systems.
Yup, I’ve seen what you’re doing with IRIX and I realized that it’d be useful on Tru64/AIX/SunOS/SysV. Or OpenVMS. :p
It hadn’t occurred to me there was even a telnet module for Ansible - never looked until now!
This is a very worthwhile endeavor and would be cool to have on say, tru64 or something. If you don't already have a SGI talk to me about getting one and hop on our discord, it's a continuous stream of interesting and fun things to do for these systems.
I have /several/ SGIs, I just haven’t made time to play with them recently. And I think I’m on that Discord, but I don’t have time/energy to do more than lurk at the moment.
Even this project is due for an overhaul as we are now able to replace
the old packages we use here (necoware) with the new RSE packages we've been developing and are now ready for use.
I am excited to see a Nekoware replacement, finally.
From: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic-bounces@lists.vcfed.org> Date: Tuesday, December 29, 2020 at 10:33 AM To: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> Cc: Jameel Akari <jakari@bithose.com> Subject: Re: [vcf-midatlantic] What projects are you working on?
On Dec 29, 2020, at 9:19 AM, Alexander Jacocks via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Non-vintage, but I also wrote an published an Ansible role to use EntryDNS to answer ACME challenges. I really enjoy working with Ansible!
I’ve thought about playbooks for less-common vintage UNIXes. It’d be nice to be able to just push config onto a fresh base OS without spending hours re-installing and re-configuring every time I want to replace disks or whatever. And to have that playbook configuration be code-as-documentation.
/jka
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