Hardware notes

(agk) Links – 2020 February

Little terminals

• Raspi 3B+, 9" screen: Rekka and Devine (display with or without case)
• Bring an EOL Chromebook back to life with new firmware.
• $60 unix-compatable laptop.
• Experimental epaper raspi terms: ultimate writer/Plan 9 on epaper (SPI driver) (7.5" or 10.3" display)

Laptop OpenBSD

• NYC*BUG dmesgd and man page search
• OpenBSD 6.7-current on a PineBook Pro 64
• Installing on ThinkPads
  • OpenBSD 6.7 on a ThinkPad
  • OpenBSD 6.4 on a ThinkPad
  • OpenBSD 6.3 on a ThinkPad X1 Carbon
• OpenBSD 4.8 on an HP Mini 5101 and disabling ACPI
  • notes on the mini
  • installing i386 OpenBSD 6.9 snapshot
• OpenBSD book

Plan9, Debian, EasyOS

• Plan 9 on raspberry pi, and Justine Haupt’s Raspberry Pi notes
• Justine’s Debian notes, Steve Lord’s Plan 9 notes, and SDF’s 9front help.
• EasyOS frugal install and prepare computer, how and why it’s different, and i3 on puppy
• Get an OS on there with ventoy.

IBM 5155

• Specs
• Upgrading & Repairing PCs
• CRT overview, Apple IIc Monitor Repair, retrace lines, and Monitor CRT FAQ
• Eevblog vintage computing forum