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Taking a look at a Dell PowerVault 124t tape autoloader from the mid-2000s. This device can store and retrieve LTO-2 tapes from ...

Taking a look at some Iomega data storage and backup drives from the late 1990s and early 2000s. We'll start with a Ditto Max ...

Taking a look at a Fluke 686 Enterprise LANMeter, the cream of the crop in 1998 when it came to network testing gear. We'll see ...

Taking a look at a Compaq ProLiant PL800 and ProLiant Storage System UE from the late 1990s. We'll get the PL800 fired up ...

Net booting an RS/6000 43p model 140 with IBM NIM, or Network Installation Management. This will let us install AIX 5.1 over the ...

Taking a look at some v.35 cables and actually using them to hook up some Cisco routers over a T1 connection. We'll also throw ...

Getting a Token Ring MCA adapter card installed in an IBM PS/2 50Z and finally getting it on a token ring network. Interview with ...

Exploring ATM networking with some huge 3Com CELLPlex and CoreBuilder 7000 enterprise switches. We'll fire these things up, ...

Reviving a CacheFlow SA-725 from 2001. We'll diagnose some hardware failures, learn how to use it, and perform a load test.

Setting up an all-in-one dial-up ISP box for my homelab with a Cisco 3725 from 2002. We'll consolidate my previous dial-up setup ...

Taking a look at Sun Microsystems Sun Fire T2000 from 2005. This has a single UltraSPARC T1 CPU with 8 cores and 32 threads ...

Today we're going to build out some "branch office" networks for my homelab retrorack. The "main office" is a Cisco 7206 VXR ...

Finally getting the Sun Rays incorporated into the retro rack. A Sun Fire V240 is hosting the Sun Ray Server Software required for ...

Setting up DSL in the homelab using some SpeedStream DSL modems and a Lucent ADSL IP DSLAM. We'll get things talking to ...

Taking a look at an IBM POWER6 machine rescued from a dumpster. We'll get this thing powered on and hooked up to an HMC, ...

Taking a look at my workshop and homelab rack! Check me out on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/clabretro Music by Karl ...

Taking a look at an IBM RS/6000 43p Model 140 Unix workstation from 1996. We'll disassemble and clean it, boot into its System ...

Completing my ultimate homelab cable setup. We'll fix a pair of industrial RF modulators, go over the go-homelab-cable project for ...

Taking a look at some Crestron video switching and upscaling gear from the late 2000s. Check me out on Patreon: ...