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Polaroid Digital Palette film recorders
Retro computing, CRTs, and film photography? What's not to love! Various gubbins and guides from getting my Polaroid Digital Palette CI-5000S film recorder working in 2025 :)
Mikrotik RouterOS
guides for Mikrotik's RouterOS
Proxmox VE
guides for various things in Proxmox VE
Hardware Mods
Modding homelab hardware to make it work better for me
Guides
Getting this funky beast working needed quite a few new skills, so here's how to do those!
Included gubbins
Polaroid CI-5000 documentation, software, marketing materials, sample images and more!
Using AAISP's L2TP tunnel service for a second LAN in RouterOS 7.8
Note: This guide was originally written in March 2023, and is rather hacky...A new one is coming soon though! Why? Before I had my FTTP internet line installed, I had to share a Virgin Media 'Business' connection with housemates.but running internet-facing s...
HP ProCurve 2910al Silent Fan Replacement Guide
Note: This guide is originally from March 2023. It's still accurate, but is not up to my current standards. Why? My HP ProCurve 2910al switch is a noisy beast with its stock fans... Not a great fit for a small flat, where I also need to sleep! So, let's ...
Guide: Parallel port passthrough in Proxmox VE 8.3.1
Why? Recently I have been messing around with a 30+ year old film recorder, which runs over parallel on Windows 95/98.I don't have the space to dedicate a vintage PC to it, but I do have a low power Proxmox server with a parallel port! However, there's fairl...
Packaging a PostScript Printer Description (PPD) file as a signed Windows 10 x64 printer driver
Why? After getting my Polaroid CI-5000 film recorder working as a PostScript-compatible printer on Windows 98SE, I wanted to use that on my Windows 10 editing PC. I foolishly expected this would just work using Windows' printer sharing, like my considerably ...
Documentation
My CI-5000 came with a whole envelope of assorted documentation, although unfortunately a lot is missing... In the interest of preservation I've scanned everything I have, and here's where you can find that :) I believe most of these are from October-Decem...
Software
My Palette also came with four software/driver floppy disks for DOS/Windows 3.1, as well as a burnt CD containing version 1.1 of GraphX Inc's RasterPlus95 I haven't yet been able to archive the software on these disks yet due to losing my USB floppy drive, bu...
Marketing materials
Some various 90s marketing brochures and cards that came with my Palette :) A proper blast from the past! "Presentation Express" product brochure "Polaroid's NEW Presentation Graphics Software" - circa 1992 BUSINESS! COMPUTERS! WOW!!PDF download: Pr...
RasterPlus95 sample images
The included RasterPlus95 software came bundled with some gloriously 90s sample images! Converted from PostScript to hi-res JPEGs/TIFFs, and presented here for your viewing pleasure! "Four Mice" - MacUser May '92 Downloads:JPEG (3299x2541px) 5MBor T...