The Interim Computer Festival is September 30th - October 1st in Seattle WA at the INTRASPACE event space at the Rainier Brewery. Registration is open.
live updates in progress. Moved to SSDs, added more cores and 128GB and 64GB ram.
Painting by Younga Barlow for Pacific Commodore Expo NW 2023
https://matrix.sdf.org is available to SDF members. There should be further details documented by the community at https://wiki.sdf.org regarding all of the social networking efforts at SDF.
The Pacific Commodore Expo NW is being held this weekend June 24th and 25th! Please feel free to stop by and play with your favorite Commodore and Amiga computers.
Location: 3100 Airport Way S, Seattle WA 98134 (old rainier brewery at Intraspace in front of Lula Coffee) Hours: 11am - 5pm Saturday and Sunday Admission: FREE - (Donations can be made to SDF.ORG)
We just made it past 1000 signups this morning. Nearly everyone joining had very thoughtful and meaningful explanations of why they want to try using this instance. It is an amazing time for the internet and we truly appreciate SDF being a part of this.
Earlier this morning SDF Chatter was upgraded for Lemmy 0.17.4.
RIght now we're trying out a few methods of distributing the service across multiple hosts much in the same way that we have grown the SDF Mastodon instance.
Thankfully, the Lemmy code is performing very well in its current configuration and the SDF community is growing at a moderate pace.
If the Fediverse does take on a full migration of the Reddit community whole, it would seem now is the time for that. A lot was learned from the Twitter migration last fall and while many instances were not prepared and scrambled to accommodate for folks, those communities have built the infrastructure since then and it is ready for you all.
How exciting is that?
Fediverse 2023!
On June 16th, 1987 the SDF-1 BBS received its first caller at 300 baud. Happy 36 years SDF!
The NABU computer is a great deal. You can buy one directly from [http://www.pellmill.com/](Pell Mill) and with efforts made by DJ Sures and others at https://nabu.ca there is a thriving infrastructure and community around it. Its z80 based and capable of running CP/M. From there you can run the MSX emulator and play many MSX games.
Your keyboard is (probably) gross!
A ritual cleaning and cap refresh can be a spiritual experience
Here is what SDF's Toad-2 looked like prior to its installation.
At one point in time the most common system on the INTERNET was the PDP-10, a 36-bit mainframe computer developed by Digital Equipment Corporation int the 1960s. As the ARPAnet grew so did the number of interconnected PDP-10s. When the ARPAnet moved towards privatization in the 1980s companies such as Systems Concepts and Cisco Systems were working on developing the next generation of PDP-10. By 1984, DEC had turned their focus fully to the popular 32-bit VAX architecture with operating systems such as VMS and the thriving UNIX system. This left many PDP-10 hackers trying to figure out what to do with their octal counting and extra bits that they couldn't cram into VMS or UNIX comfortably.
Timesharing bureaus as such CompuServe, TymShare and Applied Data relied on the PDP-10 for their large service networks. CompuServe had System Concepts building SC20, SC30 and eventually SC40 units as replacements for DEC PDP-10s. In fact, CompuServe was growing so quickly, that they effectively licensed the design of the SC40 and began building them in house.
In 1994 there were still many PDP-10s running on the INTERNET, but their days were numbered. SDF users started project "TWENEX" as a way to continue a TOPS-20 system alternative to UNIX for the community. (more details can be read at https://twenex.org).
Today, SDF continues to run PDP-10s and offers access on a Systems Concepts SC-40 and an XKL Toad-2
From what we learned last September with the spike in Mastodon usage, we're getting a head of things. We're setting up multiple Lemmy servers to help balance load on front end requests just as we do with Mastodon. So far, Lemmy's performance has been excellent with minimal resource usage, but distributing the load for pict-rs and front end requests should help us if we do indeed (and hopefully so) get a rush of new folks that want to leave reddit and grow the Fediverse.
The SDF Minecraft Server is now running PaperMC 1.19.4-550
Whatever you want. Since its a semi-private instance you can create and moderate your own communities.
SDF in 2004
It was created from scratch by SDF user laemeur who is a graphic artist/illustrator. We made stickers based off this design that are available in the https://sdf.org/?store