[vcf-midatlantic] What projects are you working on?

[Jeffrey Brace]

On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 8:03 PM Chris Fala via vcf-midatlantic <
vcf-midatlantic at 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
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> On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 11:37 AM Jameel Akari via vcf-midatlantic <
> vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
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> >
> >
> > > On Dec 29, 2020, at 11:17 AM, Andrew Diller <dillera at 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 at lists.vcfed.org>
> > > Date: Tuesday, December 29, 2020 at 10:33 AM
> > > To: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org>
> > > Cc: Jameel Akari <jakari at 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 at 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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