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  • Royce Williamstychotithonus@infosec.exchange
    Oct 8, 2026, 2:10 PM

    Highly motivated to find folks with Whistle InterJets -- late-90s 486 SOHO Internet appliances (IBM bought and sunsetted it, and sold off the whistle.com domain). People with long ISP memories may remember it because it was resold by ISPs in US /Europe / Asia (especially Japan).

    I'm building a comprehensive info resource (and tailoring modern NetBSD to run on it). We need to find folks with hardware, software we're missing, ephemera, or memories. The software (on 30yo IDE drives) is especially endangered.

    Rough site, in all its 1995-grade (but secretly HTML5) "glory":

    alaska.net/~royce/interjet/

    (That tilde account is also endangered -- I've also registered a domain and will be moving to it when ready)

    Reddit post:

    reddit.com/r/vintagecomputing/

    DM me or hit the email on the page.

    Please boost, especially if you have overlap in the retrocomputing or vintage ISP space!

    #RetroComputing #NetBSD

    A live Whistle InterJet, next to a Whistle-branded coffee cup. About the size of a large toaster, it features a green LCD screen and a blue rubbery keypad. The LED in the upper left is orange because the unit is running on its own internal UPS battery.
    The case of a unit is open, showing a vertical mainboard with two 32 MB SIMMs, a 486 covered by a heat sink, and a transcend 8 GB IDE flash. The main board is plugged into a horizontal backplane on the bottom.
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