da Haus Dining Room

Welcome to the Dining Room!

The Dining Room is home to many, many, many machines. It's our testing ground for new stuff, a repository of older junk, and repair center for all the broken things we pull out of dumpsters. Sometimes we eat dinner here, but we usually just use the room for fun experiments with new and retro technology.

This is USA Today, a newspaper box that happens to also be a computer. We've managed to cram a 486 motherboard, 12" color PS2 monitor, Thinkpad keyboard, power supply, floppy drives, and network card inside the box. It runs Windoze 95 now, but we plan on eventually upgrading it to a Pentium motherboard, 9GB SCSI disk, and linux, and making it the MartNet new server. Pretty campy, eh? Click here to learn more about this ever-evolving tribute to contemporary American culture!

Here's one wall of the dining room (the north one.) Pictured from left to right is an old Tandy Data Terminal 1 (yes, it's a dumb terminal, originally intended for use with the Tandy 16B Multi-User System. We found a leenoos term cap for it!); Swell, the dining room terminal server is in the rack below; Playdoh is a PowerMac 6100 running leenoos; next we have Gatch, a 486/33 running Plan 9 from Bell Labs; Wilbur, an old crappy Mac IIsi running MacOS 6.0.8, and finally we have artificial.com (a Sparc ELC) and her console. Click on any machine pictured above to find out more about it!

Here's an Original AT&T Unix PC 7300, or 3B1 to those who Know. Get some software for your 3B1 today! The 3B1 runs a version of AT&T's System V Unix, and likes to sit on our serial network (does anyone know if there was an ethernet option for this little gem?)

This is Frank, a VAX 11/730. He was our first, and will always be our favorite VAX. Frank clocks in at a whopping 0.3 MIPS, making it about as powerful as a Mac 128K. If anyone has an old R80 hard disk they can spare, or perhaps an old 11/730 console tape, we'd appreciate you donating it to Frank.

Here's Bubba, a Mac IIx running MacOS 7.5.1, and Sven, a crappy old TEK X-term donated to us via the dumpsters at the University of Pennsylvania, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Neat-O.