My MacBook Air is compliant enough with UEFI to at least boot memtest86 as \EFI\BOOT\BOOTX64.EFI

(I hate the excessively glossy screen, even with something that cuts the glare)

AUI to 10baseT transceivers beside a TI-30 from 1978.

The big transceiver is from 1991. The small one's from 1997.

Note that the TI-30 was famous for costing $25 in 1976. The sheer lack of electronics is the reason why. The transceivers probably cost $100 or more 15-20 years later.

It's a bit of a bodge at this stage, but WE GET SIGNAL (in this case, RESB goes low (and the LED lights up) for ~250ms when this circuit gets power!)

Now to buy the address decode logic, and ROM and RAM. I've been using the 6502 since 1984 and never realized how simple making a working computer from one was.

I need a reset circuit for my 6502 computer I'm going to try to make.

This one from the Apple II will do. (The 555 part and the transistor and resistor between the OUT and RESB)

Here we go again with the rubbishy licensing checker MS shoved down every company's corporate gob https://mastodon.sdf.org/media/66nuJHVyMQV-20VCHKQ https://mastodon.sdf.org/media/NDMfIUpUQTaeZKdOulA https://mastodon.sdf.org/media/NVx1VPqC3gAqdTWg278 https://mastodon.sdf.org/media/x_izYm1cvyFtwTWILmI

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA thats awesome

Definitely going to have to make this sub-hack work-safe (unfortunately) https://mastodon.sdf.org/media/vsgFMjxmq84jMgbjWbU

25 years ago, I was sent to Germany, where they had an entire infrastructure built around recycling everything, and you HAD to do it by law, even in multiple-dwelling units. It was one of the things I missed when I came back to USA.

I didn't get to start seriously recycling again until 2014, and even then, they don't accept things like glass! (STILL better than throwing everything away.)

https://mastodon.social/@Tdorey/99159126858683733

Poking the possessed C64 again. This time with a sharper stick.

It locked up at first with some bad RAM, but I scared that gremlin off, apparently. (Probably a thermal issue.) https://mastodon.sdf.org/media/LZZaTAKA95ldq-4Tkls

Oh dear... I just realized something:

I've got several game consoles full of software that only exists in digital form. There are the PSN games that go poof with PSN (which I'd expected), but there are also games I bought that can't be preserved (for the moment).

If ever there was a case for physical media, this is it. Those who demand physical media are not just clinging to an impossible past.