ABOUT

A collection of Notes, Reviews, and Articles regarding legacy electronics and their uses

Not a programmer, IT professional, or even an enthusiast, I'm a curator. 

I've collected and worked with depreciated computer hardware since the age of 14, and through the years I have learned that the featureless, black box under many an office desk has a story as deep and prolific as the company that built it and the teams of engineers that worked tirelessly through trials and tribulations to design it.

Of course, the tool's significance is not derived from how it was made, but what it accomplished. The SPARCStation-20 made Toy Story possible, and changed the film industry forever. Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web with a NeXT Cube, and changed information forever. But even the unassuming 486 mini-tower computer gathering dust in someone's garage helped them write an amazing résumé that got them their dream job, or meet a life-long friend on the web, or just generally manage their life in a way that wouldn't be in any way possible without it.



These stories are why the Guide is here, as my personal notebook and as a resource to help others keep those stories going for years, decades, maybe even centuries longer.

As a collector, my "speciality" is in the mainframes, servers, workstations and high-end personal computers on the forefront of the ragged, bleeding edge of the computer revolution, although I will come across anything and everything sooner or later. I am constantly learning new things, and new ways to do old things as I acquire more gear. Anything of note will most likely be saved here, to help anyone with similar obstacles to the ones I have, and will face.