Apple II
Apple II
Apple II
Spot The Design Error
A prototype for the latest Star Ring. Q1, Q2, and Q3 use this N-channel MOSFET. The circuit runs from a 3V battery. When one of the transistors is turned on, the six red/green LEDs in the associated row can be turned on or off using six microcontroller outputs. At
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The “S” is for “Steve” by Moti Friedman
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Apple II
Apple II
SolderFest!
SolderFest is a KansasFest tradition. Whether you’re a expert at soldering or aren’t sure which end of the iron hold, this evening event is an opportunity to get together, melt metal, swap stories and know-how, build cards, or repair things.
If you own soldering equipment, please bring it. We’ll have
Apple II
Apple II
Confessions of a Disk Cracker: the secrets of 4am.
Why did you choose to start aggressively de-protecting, archiving and re-distributing Apple II software?
It’s tempting to rewrite history and give myself some noble purpose for starting this hobby, but in this case the truth makes for a better story. My parents bought themselves an Apple //e when I
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Atmel ICE Wiring Horror
The Atmel ICE programmer/debugger has its SWD connector pins reversed from the standard ARM Cortex debug connector. Arghh… why? It’s the same physical connector (5×2 0.05 inch polarized male), but the pins are rotated 180 degrees from the standard, as if the cable were plugged in backwards. Incredibly, it
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Collector’s Corner: Care and Cleaning of CDs and Floppies
First demonstrated at the Consumer Electronics Show in 1982, the Compact Disc was an evolution of the optical LaserDisc format created by Philips and MCA. Philips partnered with Sony to develop the new disc, initially intended for digital audio storage. It met with steady success, eventually supplanting cassette and
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The PETSCII files: Commodore Character Graphics
Any computer that was going to use a command line interface desperately needed a character set, and despite their ultimate monstrous graphical capabilities, Commodore’s machines were no exception.
As was usually the case (cf. SHARPSCII, ATASCII) they adopted a flavour of the venerable ASCII character set standard (oddly choosing