Bookshelf & New Homelab Addition

Last week I had to attend my grandfather’s funeral. He was 72 years old and in feeble health when he passed, so he is in a better place now. However, I had the chance to finally clean my storage unit out that I’ve had since 2018! It was a 5’x10′ unit, and the entire contents of the unit was dumped into my house. I finally got a chance to unpack, and I set up my new bookshelf and added new items to my home lab.

Introducing my new home lab!

The two major additions are the Commodore 64 plus a disk drive and the TI-99A. I have big plans for the C64, so stay tuned! From bottom to top: HP ProLiant ML350p Gen8, Edgewave iPrism 75g, Dell Poweredge R310, Cisco Catalyst Express 500, a Debian PC used as a network tap, a Windows PC where the motherboard failed, two legacy Windows 98 PCs, a Commodore 64, a TI-99A, and three VGA/DVI monitors

Next up is my bookshelf. Some of these books I already had, but the majority of them came from my storage unit.

These past few weeks have been wild. Beginning in the first week of June, I started a summer research position at North Carolina A&T’s autonomous robotics lab. I had to contribute 160 hours in the lab for the eight-week summer semester. Along with that, I worked full time while pursuing 12 credit hours at the local community college. I am SO glad that it’s over. I can finally get to my home lab projects and then begin a few others. I need to upgrade my uploader service and fully release it. After that, I will do some malware analysis within my analysis lab. Finally, I will sit down and write Part II to the mainframe series.