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Last updated 5 days ago
Apple’s Performa in-store demo software from 1993
5 days ago
Last year, I bought a Macintosh Performa 410 on eBay. I wasn’t...
Fixing an NZXT Signal 4K30 part 2: the green/pink video bug
14 days ago
Last year, I repaired an NZXT Signal 4K30 USB capture device that...
Fixing an eMachines EL1200 BIOS bug with Claude
about 1 month ago
I’m no stranger to pushing hardware past its limits. For example, seven...
Finding a broken trace on my old Mac with the help of its ROM diagnostics
9 months ago
Yesterday, for the first time in about a year, I tried powering...
Debugging BeagleBoard USB boot with a sniffer: fixing omap_loader on modern PCs
11 months ago
This post is about the original OMAP3530 BeagleBoard from 2008. Yes, the...
An update about the hidden Performa 550 recovery partition
about 1 year ago
Earlier this year, I wrote about how I rescued a special recovery...
Finding a 27-year-old easter egg in the Power Mac G3 ROM
over 1 year ago
I was recently poking around inside the original Power Macintosh G3’s ROM...
Modifying an HDMI dummy plug’s EDID using a Raspberry Pi
over 1 year ago
I recently found myself needing to change the monitor that a cheap...
Please don’t ship heavy, fragile vintage computers. They will be destroyed.
over 1 year ago
As part of my research into the Macintosh Performa 550’s factory recovery...
How I fixed the infamous Basilisk II Windows “Black Screen” bug in 2013
over 1 year ago
I’ve been noticing a lot of fun stories lately about bugs in...
Apple’s long-lost hidden recovery partition from 1994 has been found
over 1 year ago
In my last post about hard drives that go bad over time...
The gooey rubber that’s slowly ruining old hard drives
over 1 year ago
As part of my work toward an upcoming post about a lost...