Legacy Labs officially launches its inaugural two‑month summer camp, inviting engineers to relive a 2009‑style sysadmin experience. Founder draws the concept from five years of the Old Computer Challenge, where participants wrestled with low‑end hardware for a week. This new format swaps a single intense week for an extended period, letting participants dive deep into any retro‑computing or permacomputing topic they choose.

For the first cohort, organizer plans a hands‑on recreation of a small‑business network built on Windows Server 2008 Core. He will host Active Directory, file, DHCP and Hyper‑V services inside VMs managed by Incus on an Alpine Linux node. Legacy hardware—including a Vista netbook, 100 Mb Cisco switches and Mikrotik devices—will serve as physical endpoints, testing nested virtualization and legacy device integration.

The lab will generate how‑to guides on creating golden images for legacy OSes, bridging Mikrotik WLAN‑to‑LAN, and exposing Incus metrics to Prometheus and Zabbix. By publishing detailed rebuild steps, the project aims to preserve operational knowledge of obsolete stacks while giving modern engineers a sandbox for curiosity‑driven learning. Legacy Labs thus turns nostalgia into practical skill development.