Hardlimit Museum

[Yorus]

What a marvel!. I don't even want to imagine the amount of time it takes you to do all these things.

As for the necessary hardware, I imagine that at a certain point it is difficult for a single person to handle, whether it's the level of hardware needed, bandwidth, power consumption, noise...

[cobito]

Yes, in the end the hardware is limiting. I had to stop indexing due to lack of RAM but if I had more, the speed would be even worse, so with DDR3 in particular or a conventional machine in general, you can't scratch much more.

Thinking about it a bit when I've come across the limits during development and indexing, I think a "rig" of Raspberry Pis would be a viable option. Something like that would be relatively inexpensive, relatively simple and very scalable. But of course, there is always a significant initial outlay that has to be justified by intensive use of the tool.

For now, let's see how it's received because in the end it still has a niche audience.

[jordiqui]

@sylver Don't doubt it - If needed, I grant remote access and voila. I just read it, sorry for the delay.

[cobito]

@jordiqui said in Museo Hardlimit:

@sylver Don't even doubt it - If needed, I grant remote access and voila. I just read it, sorry for the delay.

Thanks for the offer. It won't be necessary, even though I'm envious of your 64GB of RAM

[jordiqui]

@cobito

[cobito]

[Sylver]

@jordiqui Jejejee I would go and set up a hosting service and offer it to websites like this one, you can make a lot of money from that great server

Best regards!

[_Neptunno_]

@jordiqui said in Museo Hardlimit:

@cobito

Buah!! you already have us all more "excited" than a child in a candy store hahaha

Greetings!!

[jordiqui]

@sylver I have to install the windows server on the two HP proliant mount several ssd with TB of storage and the cluster will have to be installed by them. And I will test it locally with my chess web. to see how it works. Then we will see, because if I can save myself the hosting service of the other web (it weighs a lot because of photos, etc.) we will see. But they have confused me to study anthropology and my brain can't handle everything...

[cobito]

I leave you here a new episode of The Computer Chronicles subtitled for you to pass the sweltering night:

[cobito]

@cobito To kick off the season, the Hardlimit translation team has subtitled another episode, this time dedicated to the controversial version 6.2 of MS-DOS:

[cobito]

In the coming days, the Hardlimit translation team will subtitle another episode of The Computer Chronicles.

The following titles are proposed:

1. Internet (1993)
2. Atari ST (1989)
3. The Megahercios Race (1989)
4. Virtual Reality (1992)
5. CD-ROMs (1988)
6. Amiga and Atari (1985)
7. Windows 3.0 (1990)
8. Windows 95 (1994)
9. Pentium Computers (1993)

You can vote by replying to this toot: https://social.hardlimit.com/web/@cobito/109325523271022485

[cobito]

The fifth generation of x86 processors was a big leap from the 486s. At a time when competitors like PowerPC and Alpha were starting to appear, Intel wasn't worried because they were confident that the Pentium's backward compatibility and the extensive software library would work against the new options. But with the Pentiums and their 3.1 million transistors, a new problem appeared: excess temperature. To solve it, manufacturers mounted a fan on top of a heatsink, something not seen to date in home computers. Upgrading to Pentium cost $2000 of the time, which didn't sound so bad when compared to the $4000 of a new PC. But this investment had to be justified, so performance comparisons between Pentium and 486 were the order of the day.

[jordiqui]

@cobito What times! And yes they cost a fortune, I don't think I could have bought a pc a few years later. Of course I didn't need it, but the thing with the fan has left me baffled, I didn't know that. Thanks, one more curious and interesting fact.

[defaultuser]

@jordiqui a cousin of mine had to get a pc to study, it had a turbo button on the front, and I'm not sure but it seems to me that it went from 33 to 66Mhz, or it was something in the range below 133Mhz for sure.

[cobito]

@defaultuser Then it was a 486. On the Pentiums you couldn't modify the speed even though the towers continued to sell them with the turbo button and the 7-segment display, I suppose for compatibility and the inertia of so many years with that functionality.

With the Pentium II and the introduction of the boxes and ATX power supplies, all of that disappeared definitively.

[ghazestor]

I say this in case, when I have time, I can give you an old CPU like a K7 or Pentium III.

[cobito]

What was the Internet like 30 years ago? There was excitement and enthusiasm, and above all, it was an innocent place. Very innocent.

There was also a vision for the future: a video conferencing system that can be considered an early version of what Skype is today and a video on demand system that looks a lot like Netflix.

Online communities were places where people from all over the world interacted with each other years before the first social network appeared. But there were also those who found very creative applications, such as producing a radio show that is then uploaded to the Internet. Long before the term was coined, these radio producers were already giving a precise definition of an idea that we now know as a podcast.

It was an unknown world to most. So how did you explain the most basic concepts? Cyberspace? Superhighways of information? Online communities? Analogies with the real world were essential.

In a field dominated by text interfaces, something completely revolutionary appears: a point-and-click hypertext graphical interface. Mosaic was what we now know as a web browser.

And all this, what impact does it have on society? Why all this fuss about the Internet? Is it really a paradigm shift in the way humans relate to each other?

Here I leave you a juicy piece of the history of the Internet with subtitles:

[defaultuser]

@cobito Huf in companies the internet was like there was something mystical hidden in a room, it was used by 3 or 2 people, and the rest didn't even know there was such a thing in the company .
Shortly after I had access to a Windows 3.1 but no internet, and apart from the fact that you had to install the cable, they took such care and fear of it that you couldn't see.
Back then it was like a new frontier for good and for bad.
With the first internet cafes you went to investigate the matter, and at home they stayed worried while others had been using napster in the background on the company pc of some family member for a while.

[cobito]

This time we have a video of an ecosystem that I didn't know about. It's about two machines based on Motorola's 68000 architecture with features that I thought only came to the home market in the mid-90s.

To be honest, I find it incredible that there were such sophisticated computers at popular prices in the mid-80s. And it's a bit depressing to me that two machines that were eating the options of Apple (much more expensive) and IBM/Microsoft (much more primitive) didn't catch on.

But it seems that the prediction they make in the video was correct and in the end, if you don't have the software, you have nothing.

About the video, if you want to watch it in full screen, click on the Hardlimit logo in the bottom right corner when it's playing.