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Exploring the Legacy of Sun SPARC

The iconic workstations that powered the dot-com era and beyond.

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August 09, 2026

Building the Ultimate Sun Microsystems Part & System Browser

I have no idea if anyone else will find this useful or care, but it was driving me completely insane that there was no single, centralized place to easily search for historical ...

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June 27, 2026

📱 Nokia Booklet 3G: The Premium Netbook That Time Forgot

When we think of the late 2000s netbook craze, the mind immediately jumps to chunky, plastic Asus Eee PCs or Acer Aspires running Windows XP. They were cheap, cheerful, and ever ...

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May 03, 2026

Catch of the Day: Surfing in the Server Room! 🦖💾

Hey Retro Fans and IT Veterans!Sometimes our FrogFind radar catches exotics that make even hardcore system administrators rub their eyes in disbelief. Forget old handhelds or co ...

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Moin, I'm Markus

Welcome to my digital museum. This project started from a love of computing history that began in the 1980s with a Commodore 64 and evolved into a fascination with the big iron of Sun Microsystems.

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