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Eva Winterschön

Finally, the separate box of POWER9 upgrades appears. These are for the dual socket 144 thread Talos II here at home (the LC-922 are in colo). Relocation has turned up a lot of missing hardware, very pleased about this turn of events.

So, the long lost box contains:
- 4x Samsung 883-DCT 2TB SSDs for local storage ZFS pool (with 2x Optane NVMe cache)
- 3x PM863a 240GB SSDs for the OS
- always more RAM
- an OcuLink 4x to U.2 cable w/ Optane drive floating around somewhere
- Mellanox 50GbE QSFP28 NIC for RDMA fun

@dexter finally, we can continue the project with appropriate hardware

#homelab#power9#ibm
Simon D.

Avant les #GAFAM : quand #IBM mettait la main sur l’Europe

lvsl.fr/avant-les-gafam-quand-

L’accord entre l’Union européenne et les États-Unis comprend, outre la mise en place de barrières tarifaires de 15 % par Washington – sans contrepartie –, la promesse d’achat de centaines de milliards de dollars en armes et énergie américaines. L’asymétrie des clauses a ravivé les débats sur la vulnérabilité du Vieux continent vis-à-vis de la puissance américaine. Dans Géopolitique du numérique. L’impérialisme à pas de géants (L’Atelier, 2023), Ophélie Coelho, chercheuse à l’IRIS, revient sur sa genèse.

lvsl.fr - Tout reconstruire, tout réinventer · Avant les GAFAM : quand IBM mettait la main sur l’EuropeMirages numériques | Avant les GAFAM : quand IBM mettait la main sur l’Europe . LVSL
Soh Kam Yung

"If you bought a ThinkPad between 1995 and 2017, it was probably designed under the oversight of David W. Hill, who served as lead designer under both IBM and Lenovo for those 22 years. We caught up with Hill, who today runs his own firm, ThinkNext Design, to talk about the history of ThinkPad, what drove him to make key design decisions, and the products he wanted to come out with but just couldn't."

theregister.com/2025/08/02/thi

The Register · Long live the nub: ThinkPad designer David Hill spills secrets, designs that never made itBy Avram Piltch
#Computers#Thinkpad#IBM
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JdeBP

@cks @simontatham

If we go with What Multics Calls Things as a guide to what the name would have been in an alternative history, it is a "search list".

The mind boggles as to what we would have got with an IBM heritage.

"Authorized Ordered Command Location Facility Set" or some such.

And they'd have made it a set, too. No duplicates. (-:

#Unix#PATH#IBM
vga256

inexplicably removed from youtube, this has just been recovered with wbm:

ibm hires kate mulgrew/captain janeway in 1994 to promote OS/2 Warp 3 after patrick stewart shits the bed on a paid appearance

it's painful.

#ibm#os2#retroComputing
Dennis A

#Lenovo #ThinkPad #IBM
Since its debut in 1992 by IBM, ThinkPad PCs have been a symbol of business computing. I still have an IBM Thinkpad 380ED from 1997. It's 2.5" thick, weighs 7.5#, and cost $3100. It has the little red eraser TrackPoint in the middle of the keyboard.

Meet the Reddit community reviving ancient Lenovo ThinkPads

"Meet the Reddit community proving that you don't need the latest and greatest for daily computing needs."
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XDA · Meet the Reddit community reviving ancient Lenovo ThinkPadsMeet the Reddit community proving that you don't need the latest and greatest for daily computing needs.
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argv minus one

The #Intel 286 was an odd one. It had a 24-bit addressing mode (improved from the 8086/8088's 20-bit addressing) with protected virtual memory, so that was cool. But using this mode was a one-way trip: the only way to get back to the 8086/8088 “real” mode was to reboot!

But the #IBM engineers designing the PC/AT had other plans…

#retrocomputing
Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

#HashiCorp speaks up about adjusting to life under #IBM
Freshly acquired cloud darling talks mainframes, Ansible, and influencing Big Blue at HashiDays event
"It's almost hard to describe IBM as one culture," said Dadgar during a later briefing. "Because things like #RedHat are so different. So I'd say Red Hat is much closer to us in terms of [having] #opensource in their DNA. They are very community-oriented.
theregister.com/2025/06/05/has

The Register · HashiCorp speaks up about adjusting to life under IBMBy Richard Speed
Jason Bowen 🇺🇦

#IBM and #AIX friends: is there any place I can get a shell account on an AIX box (any version, any processor generation) for <= 25USD (not a hard cap). To be clear, I'm not looking for Linux on POWER, but prpoper AIX.

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