TheIpex wrote on 2026-01-24, 05:08:

This is actually my first encounter with the AMD K6 CPUs in general. I was planning on acquiring one for an Epox SS7 board I have in storage but never got around to it.

Wait...how old are you? K6-2 were everywhere from 98 to 2003 at least

rasz_pl wrote on 2026-02-26, 06:12:

Ozzuneoj wrote on 2026-02-26, 04:54:

For me it goes straight to this page: https://classic.technology/ […]
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weedeewee wrote on 2026-02-26, 04:34:

Odd, link works for me.

For me it goes straight to this page:
https://classic.technology/

EDIT: Weird, I tried it four times and it went to their main page. Now, the link takes me to the pdf as expected.

EDIT2: And now its bake to sending me to their main page again. Wut? 🤣

same. to be fair I dont expect much from a website using .technology domain 😀

It's weird.
Just to verify, I opened another browser, pasted the link and it opened the pdf immediately.
I got no idea why it works for me, yet fails for you and others.
This, https://classic.technology/tape-shuttle-family/ ,is the link to the webpage that links to the pdf.
And I've added the file to this comment, hope that's ok.

weedeewee wrote on 2026-02-26, 17:13:

It's weird.
Just to verify, I opened another browser, pasted the link and it opened the pdf immediately.
I got no idea why it works for me, yet fails for you and others.

The weird thing is not that it fails, its that its inconsistent. It failed first time, but after Ozzuneoj mentioned it working after multiple persistent tries I tried again and it _did_ work yesterday. I just checked again now and it doesnt work again 😀 I can only guess its one of those modern stack kubernetes/docker "omg so scalable" cloud deployments where no one knows how anything works anymore because of all the layers between simple www server and the client. Caches, balancers, cdn setup, routing, workers, microservices, the list goes on and on.

Living wrote on 2026-02-26, 10:01:

TheIpex wrote on 2026-01-24, 05:08:

This is actually my first encounter with the AMD K6 CPUs in general. I was planning on acquiring one for an Epox SS7 board I have in storage but never got around to it.

Wait...how old are you? K6-2 were everywhere from 98 to 2003 at least

I'm in my 30s, I grew up in a small town and pretty much all the computers I encountered/owned in that period were Intel.

Yeah you get that kind of thing in isolated towns, single supplier basically. I remember one guy I talked to years back, who was still getting used to the idea that computers came in different cases. I guess he was at the far end of a county and the "small smoke" county town computer store must have got in a full container or truckload of this one case and was selling them for years, supplying biz, local schools, personal.

A couple storage locker finds yesterday.

The retro was an Asus P5A-B with a K6-2 500MHz w/ 128MB RAM. It was in an antistatic bag. In working order.

Came with the accessories.

Typical 5V sucker board.

...but hey, it was free!

Next up from same as above is a HP Omen. Not really retro, it's a 6th gen i7....but worthy of an honorable mention.

It's pretty filthy. Nasty dust & some mildew.

Lighting works....as goofy as it is.

CPU and GPU are liquid cooled.

The M.2 disk is dafuct. Won't read and HDTUNE says @ 6% life... 🤣

Hey, free is free!