Tiny Dongle Brings the Hard Drive’s Song Back to Updated Retrocomputers

Back in the “beige box” days of computing, it was pretty easy to tell what your machine was doing just by listening to it, because the hard drive was constantly …read more Continue reading Tiny Dongle Brings the Hard Drive’s Song Back to Updated Retrocomputers

HVTPI Primer And Toolkit Equips You For BOM Substitutions

A HVTPI adapter plugged into a USBASP, with a an IDC10 cable plugged into it in turn

Novel programming interfaces for MCUs might catch us by surprise, but then we inevitably get up to speed with the changes required. Today’s bastion is HVTPI – a “12V reset” …read more Continue reading HVTPI Primer And Toolkit Equips You For BOM Substitutions