RetroFed
You can log into 28 vintage computer systems in your browser for free, thanks to the Interim Computer Museum. Experience legendary OSes, architectures, programming languages, and games
The Interim Computer Museum (ICM) and SDF.org have made 28 vintage computer systems accessible online for free. There’s a plethora of old but gold - some legendary - systems available, so your visit should be like entering a living museum of computing.
All you have to do is point your browser at connect.sdf.org and login by typing ‘menu’ to gain guest access to the systems. Typing ‘1’ toggles between pages, revealing the full 28 choices.
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Seems DDOSsed by curious people like me right now
penguinI’m imagining you’re actually using the vintage computer and its just screaming at having been connected to the internet
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thingsiplayhttps://connect.sdf.org/ I get an error message on login as “menu”. Does anyone have an idea why?:
shell request failed on channel 0
Edit: Ah yes, probably too many accessing it at the same time.
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Ooooh, I always wanted to use BeOS.
BeOS is my favorite desktop OS of all time. Nowadays I run Linux on all my machines, but there are things that it was better and faster at on a Pentium 75 with 16MB of RAM than today’s multi GHz and multi GB systems running Linux, MacOS or Windows. I’m not sure how much of that you will see in a demo like this, as is was more day to day things from back when we cared about local files and applications and weren’t permanently connected to the internet. But still, it was amazing.
BeOS was pretty neat. It’s almost a shame that it was a proprietary dead end.
The https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeBox was also quite an impressive thing on paper in its day though you kind of knew it was going to be unobtainable and/or too expensive.
Haiku has come a long way, I’m told, but I haven’t tried it yet (and I don’t think I own anything that can run it on bare metal)
Doesnt seem to work for me. Typing “menu” causes the page to lock up or reload.
You can ssh in to menu@tty.sdf.org, but that’s also going pretty slow at the moment.