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mhd ◴[26 Mar 21 16:25 UTC] No.26593960[source]▶

Back when I started uni, they had a whole room full of old Apollo Domain/OS machines. I think they were previously used for CAD or some EE stuff, but even than (late 90s) pretty much only used for people to do their email (pine, mostly).

Anyone got some actual war stories about the soft- and hardware?

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1. breput ◴[26 Mar 21 23:37 UTC] No.26598298[source]▶

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I spent a lot of time in the computer lab with all sorts of Apollo Domain/OS machines.

You could always spot the newbs because they grabbed the first available workstation instead of the nice DN3500 or other 68030 based machines. And then the HP 425t machines started showing up and it was amazing.

I did mostly Spice and other text based "work" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISCABBS), but there were some decent EDA and CAD graphical programs.

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