Vintage Computing

The Internet Is Trying to Kill This 40-Year-Old Computer. Here’s How It Fights Back.

📅 September 21, 2026 📂 Systems & Hardware

A restored PDP-11/83 from 1983 is serving this page to you—if it survives the internet’s brute force. The owner uses Cloudflare, Varnish, and Caddy as life support, but the real threat is us. A plea to not treat a 40-year-old Unix box as a challenge reveals how the modern web has become a hostile environment for even its own history.

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The Hand-Drawn Blueprint That Built Your Computer Is Falling Apart. No One Knows How to Fix It.

📅 August 14, 2026 📂 Systems & Hardware

The Intel 8080 Rubylith mask — a hand-cut piece of red film with 5,000 transistors — is the original blueprint for the microprocessor that launched personal computing. It’s now cracking, and the skills to restore it have nearly vanished. This isn’t nostalgia; it’s the Rosetta Stone of chip design, revealing human decisions no datasheet captured.

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