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retrorepairsandrefurbs.com | ||
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trixter.oldskool.org
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| | | | | One of my hobbies is taking old IBM PCs (and clones) and restoring them. "Restoring them" can mean anything, but for me, it usually means these three things: Get the hardware functional and booting up Archive the data off of any internal hard drives Wipe the hard drives clean and set it up for appropriate... | |
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irq5.io
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| | | | | If you're into microcontrollers like me, you should have an FTDI breakout board or the more handy FTDI TTL-232R-3V3 cable. This cable integrates an FTDI USB-to-serial chip and terminates into a 6-pin header, with TTL in/outputs, ready to be interfaced to any microcontroller. Recently I had to talk to an RS232 port. The voltage used... | |
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www.leadedsolder.com
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| | | | | Way back in May of 2018, I was unable to get the SparcStation 1+ to stop returning "Illegal Instruction" errors for any attempt at booting. This made absolutely no sense to anyone I asked about it, and they suggested replacing the PROM battery, because at least then we'd have fewer known-broken parts in the computer. I ignored this advice, and just stuck the computer in a corner with the other broken machines for awhile so it could think about what it did. | |
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convolv.es
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| | | Background As part of my work on the Stylo / Quantum CSS team at Mozilla, I needed to be able to test changes to Firefox that only affect Linux 32-bit builds. These days, I believe you essentially have to use a 64-bit host to build Firefox to avoid OOM issues during linking and potentially other steps, so this means some form of cross-compiling from a Linux 64-bit host to a Linux 32-bit target. | ||
