theothertom's collection of retro nonsense

This is a collection of notes from my messing with Cobalt Qube hardware and software that I got sorta nerdsniped into messing with.

Cobalt

Stuff about the Cobalt Qube/Raq servers.

Virtual Machines

This is "running old software on new hardware". This stuff might also be a good source of ideas for running the OS from unrelated old hardware (especially if it has a boot ROM and run Linux) in VMs.

• Some notes of running the OS for a Cobalt Qube 3 in a VM

Physical Machines

This is "running new software on old hardware". This is more about getting "usable" services running on original hardware, with a general disregard for keeping the original OS involved.

• Building a fediverse server on a Qube 3

Other Stuff

This is non-cobalt stuff that I could probably host elsewhere...

• Migrating from Tailscale to Headscale

Work in progress

Things that are very much at the ideas stage. I'd love to hear about it if it turns out that someone already did any of this!

• Building a modernisation layer for the orginal Cobalt web UI. As shipped, it only works in browsers that are only enough it's annoying to run them

Contact

You can get in touch via:

• Email
• The Fediverse.