I'm sitting in a front of my workstation, reading Gopher, writing
texts, filling stuff to the spreadsheet and listening the ORF Radio
Wien on-line. Well, surfing the WWW and reading e-mails in an
browser-based client, too. And I'm going to connect my PSION MC600 via
serial port to transfer files which I created on that laptop.
So I'm doing nothing special - I have been doing such things on this
particular computer for 15 years. OF course there is increasing number
of WWW sites and services which are unaccessible from here (the
Mastodon is not an exception). But many things can be done with use of
remote access to the SDF.
I'm using the SGI O2 workstation - a low-end workstation from 1997 or
so. It has the MIPS R10000 CPU at 250 MHz (I have a R12000 somewhere
but still have not managed to do the upgrade), 256 MB of RAM (I think I
wrote here about my RAM feilures some time ago) and the magnificent
1600x1024 LCD screen (the 1600SW panel - it might be unacceptable today
but it is still very nice and eyes-friendly).
So thing work as usual. The computer can be a "retro" in someone's eyes
but there is no challenge. Fortunately.
