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Sophie Haskins
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Sophie Haskins writes Pizza Box Computer, a personal blog at blog.pizzabox.computer about hardware, systems and history. Since 2018, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “A yak shave with SGI's EFS”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its material on pizza-box form-factor computers, such as Sun SPARCstations and HP workstations, along with photos of vintage Macs and HP-UX boot screens.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
[A Sophie Haskins Project](https://blog.sophaskins.net/)
Most-linked posts?
- A yak shave with SGI's EFS2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-07-05
- Installing A/UX on the Quadra 610 (2018)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-12-03
- /pizzaboxes/sparcstation/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-01-04
- NeXTSTEP on the HP 712 Part 2: Getting Software2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-06-10
What Hacker News says?
desktop literally built into the desk top The Sun "pizza box" computer was like that.[1] You could just bolt a 1U rackmount server to the underside of a desktop. Or get a desk that's 1.75 inches thick, cut a hole of the appropriate size, and recess the server into it. There are lots of under the desk computer mounts, but I haven't seen a recessed one. [1] https://blog.pizzabox.computer/pizzaboxes/sparcstation/
Comment linking /pizzaboxes/sparcstation/
on “Open-source RGB lighting control for keyboards, fans, etc”Submitted Booting Windows NT 4 on a DEC Multia as a story · 160 points
HN discussionNot really, back in the days of UNIX glory workstation days also as something to put on the desk, https://blog.pizzabox.computer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizza-box_form_factor
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on “Lego says it wants to start to bring video game development in-house”Submitted NeXTSTEP on the HP 712 Part 1: Installation as a story · 140 points
HN discussionAt least on pictures HP 9000 / HP-UX "boot scroll" looks the nicest: https://blog.pizzabox.computer/img/hp712/hpux-init.png https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/HP...
Comment linking /img/hp712/hpux-init.png
on “Modernizing the OpenBSD Console”Submitted NeXTSTEP on the HP 712 Part 2: Getting Software as a story · 106 points
HN discussionMy nomination for weirdest: The Power Macintosh 6100. < https://blog.pizzabox.computer/img/powermac6100/front.jpeg > See that button below the floppy drive? It's not an eject button. One guess on what people used to PCs routinely did.
Comment linking /img/powermac6100/front.jpeg
on “Wild Apples: The 12 weirdest and rarest Macs ever made”Submitted Installing A/UX on the Quadra 610 (2018) as a story · 102 points
HN discussionThey may not have been the fastest machines but they were not that bad, really. What? This is about actual pizza boxes? On HN I'd have expected it to be about pizza boxen [1] but clearly I'm out of touch. [1] https://blog.pizzabox.computer/pizzaboxes/sparcstation/
Comment linking /pizzaboxes/sparcstation/
on “You Don’t Know How Bad the Pizza Box Is”Submitted An interactive look at how a video signal is made as a story · 83 points
HN discussionSubmitted A yak shave with SGI's EFS as a story · 81 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Yak Shave with SGI's EFS (2018) as a story · 21 points
HN discussionSubmitted NeXTSTEP on the HP 712 Part 2: Getting Software as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Installing A/UX on the Quadra 610 as a story · 1 points
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