Considering this is the retrocomputing subspace, it seems the right place to put a link to the Old Computer Challenge (OCC) 2023, which starts in little over a week's time.

Old Computer Challenge

Old Computer Challenge (http)

This year's edition runs from 10th to 16th July and the goal is to purposefully limit computer performance (e.g. by using a retrocomputer) and see what kind of fun observations/creativity comes out of it.

I'll be participating with an iBook G3 clamshell, with OpenBSD installed on it :-D

#occ

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👻 ghostzero

2023-07-01 · 11 months ago · 👍 drh3xx, devalexwhite, sparcipx, lypanov

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🐐 drh3xx · 2023-07-05 at 19:33:

Just made the required changes on my x270. Bit early but I have other systems to use in the meantime. Didn't take part in the previous challenges but decided I really wanted to going forward. 512MB and a single core at 400MHz is surprisingly slow even with DWM and st. Think I may endup going full terminal for the duration. Seem to recall 8MB of RAM and a single core @ 66MHz been more performant but I guess Operating Systems were so much simpler rather than layer upon layer of security mitigation.

👻 ghostzero [OP] · 2023-07-06 at 07:32:

@drh3xx Sweet, feel free to say hello in #oldcomputerchallenge on liberachat :)

My iBook has a whopping 366MHz CPU and 160mb of RAM. It's enough to run Xorg but yeah, I might just spend a lot of time in the terminal next week :-D

🐐 drh3xx · 2023-07-06 at 12:15:

Thanks @ghostzero I'll look at getting setup on liberachat befire Monday. Guess I best see what irc clients are available on OpenBSD.