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As we all know, when developing software for any platform or simply hacking a bit of code to probe how something works, the ability to deploy code rapidly is a …read more Continue reading PicoROM, A DIP-32 8-Bit ROM Emulator
We’ve seen a few retro products using core rope memory, such as telephone autodiallers. Obviously, we’ve covered the Apollo program computers, but we don’t think we’ve seen a complete and …read more Continue reading DIY Core Rope Memory Z80 Demonstrator Generating a Fibonacci Sequence
[Luizão] wanted to create some hardware to honour the memory of the technology used to put man on the moon and chose the literal core of the project, that of …read more Continue reading Build Your Own Core Rope Memory Module?
There’s treasures hidden in old technology, and you deserve to be able to revive it. Whether it’s old personal computer platforms, vending machines, robot arms, or educational kits based on …read more Continue reading Relatively Universal ROM Programmer Makes Retro Tech Hacking Accessible
There are 0x10 ways to look at ROM programmers: they’re either relatively low-cost tools that let you quickly get about the business of programming vintage ROMs and get back to …read more Continue reading A Low-Cost ROM Programmer With an AI Twist
Intel ME, AMT, SMT, V-Pro… All of these acronyms are kind of intimidating, all we know about them is that they are tied to remote control technologies rooted deep in …read more Continue reading Enabling Intel AMT For BIOS-over-WiFi
We all know that solderless breadboards have their limitations. All that stray capacitance can play hell with circuits, especially high-speed stuff, but they’re so darn useful that avoiding them in …read more Continue reading Switching Converter for EEPROM Programmer Taxes Solderless Breadboard
Apple Macintosh computers of the 1990s came with a system ROM containing an Open Firmware implementation and the Mac Toolbox required to start the operating system. In many cases this …read more Continue reading A Flasher Mac, 25 Years Later
What’s the difference between a 64k ROM in a 28-pin DIP and a 128k ROM in a 32-pin DIP? Aside from the obvious answers of “64k” and “four pins,” it …read more Continue reading Stuffing a 32-Pin Chip Into a 28-Pin Socket
[Sarah K Marr] dabbles in retrocomputing and has a fascination with the Hewlett Packard HP-45 calculator, the second calculator in HP’s series introduced in 1973. Over a year ago, she …read more Continue reading HP1973 Project Highlights Workings of HP-45 Calculator