Restoring a vintage Xerox Alto day 8: it boots!

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We've been restoring a Xerox Alto from the 1970s for several months, and we finally got it to boot and run some programs! There's ...
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Sonicare toothbrush teardown: microcontroller, H bridge, and inductive charging

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My Sonicare electric toothbrush recently quit working, so I took it apart and examined the interesting circuitry inside. There's much ...
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Restoring a Xerox Alto day 7: experiments with disk and Ethernet emulators

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In this Alto restoration session we controlled the Alto's disk drive with an FPGA disk emulator and attempted booting the Alto with a B...

How to run C programs on the BeagleBone's PRU microcontrollers

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This article describes how to write C programs for the BeagleBone's microcontrollers. The BeagleBone Black is an inexpensive, credit-...
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Restoring YC's Xerox Alto: how our boot disk was trashed with random data

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In the previous Xerox Alto restoration session , we got the disk working, but the system didn't boot. After much investigation, I dis...
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Restoring YCombinator's Xerox Alto day 6: Fixed a chip, data read from disk

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In today's Xerox Alto restoration session we investigated why the disk drive isn't working and found a failed chip. With this chip...
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Lacking safety features, cheap MacBook chargers create big sparks

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You might wonder if it's worth spending $79 for a genuine MacBook charger when you can get a charger on eBay for under $15. You should...
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