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   Tim W RESISTS (tim@union.place)'s status on Thursday, 05-Dec-2024 11:28:16 JST Tim W RESISTS

   Fun fact: this was DynDNS' first "real" datacenter (meaning: not my bedroom attached to a modem). It was in a basement of an office building on one of Ithaca's hills, with a small local wireless ISP that also did small colo. #DynDNSHistory

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     Tim W RESISTS (tim@union.place)'s status on Thursday, 05-Dec-2024 11:48:22 JST Tim W RESISTS

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     • Mike Gerdts

     @mgerdts lol I had completely forgotten those were Netras but you're exactly correct.

     The bottom two were "eBay specials" as we liked to call them. I think the Netras we actually bought new and might have been our first bought-new server-grade hardware.

     I can't honestly remember why we went with the Netras since we were primarily a Free bad shop. I vaguely recall being pissed off at Solaris all the time.

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     Mike Gerdts (mgerdts@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 05-Dec-2024 11:48:23 JST Mike Gerdts

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     @tim looks like the bottom two are an #Sun Ultra II and a #SPARC 5 or maybe a SPARC 20. That second one includes a graphics adapter with a 13W3 connector. The three matching servers look like #Netra X1’s.

     #SunMicrosystems #Solaris

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     Tim W RESISTS (tim@union.place)'s status on Thursday, 05-Dec-2024 22:16:05 JST Tim W RESISTS

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     Wow, everybody likes photos of old servers, eh? 😀

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     Tim W RESISTS (tim@union.place)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 00:10:06 JST Tim W RESISTS

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     • Ccollet
     • Mike Gerdts

     @Ccollet you and @mgerdts will have to hash it out, you may both have parts of it right: https://mastodon.social/@mgerdts/113597920022929779

     Definitely random Sun hardware for sure, though. For reasons I cannot recall (other than, for sure, being cheap on eBay. And maybe "fun" though I definitely also recall much swearing at Slolaris).

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     Ccollet (ccollet@blander.ddnsfree.com)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 00:10:07 JST Ccollet

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     @tim That looks like a Sparcstation 10 and Sparcstation 5 maybe? DynDNS was a great service. It was so cool being able to host a server out of my basement and have an actual DNS name 😅
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     Tim W RESISTS (tim@union.place)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 10:15:30 JST Tim W RESISTS

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     • Stephen Greenham

     @solarisfire lolol

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     Stephen Greenham (solarisfire@mast.solarisfire.com)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 10:15:31 JST Stephen Greenham

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     @tim The rear of 3 Sun Netra X1's! This post should be behind a content warning for being too sexy!

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     Tim W RESISTS (tim@union.place)'s status on Saturday, 07-Dec-2024 21:59:29 JST Tim W RESISTS

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     • Mx Autumn :blobcatpumpkin:

     @carbontwelve I think the audience would be pretty small and honestly I'm not sure I'd be able to make it interesting enough to hold people's attention. But I'm definitely testing the waters in miniature here with #DynDNSHistory !

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     Mx Autumn :blobcatpumpkin: (carbontwelve@notacult.social)'s status on Saturday, 07-Dec-2024 21:59:30 JST Mx Autumn :blobcatpumpkin:

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     @tim that’s some very cool history. Have you written in detail somewhere about how it all came about and the adventures you had along the way? Because that’s the kind of book I love to read.

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     Tim W RESISTS (tim@union.place)'s status on Sunday, 08-Dec-2024 05:32:44 JST Tim W RESISTS

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     • Calvin’s IT Posts

     @it yup, something of that type, folks have guessed several specific models and your/their guesses are as good as my memory at this point.

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     Calvin’s IT Posts (it@gluck.cc)'s status on Sunday, 08-Dec-2024 05:32:45 JST Calvin’s IT Posts

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     @tim Am I seeing Sun Sparcstation Ultra 1 and 5 model workstations at the bottom of that stack? I fondly remember my days doing Solaris administration with those types of systems.