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Restoring YC's Xerox Alto day 10: New boards, running programs, mouse problems
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Last week our vintage Alto was crashing; we traced the problem to an incompatibility between two of the processor boards. Today we repla...
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Restoring YC's Xerox Alto day 9: tracing a crash through software and hardware
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Last week, after months of restoration, we finally got the vintage Xerox Alto computer to boot ( details ) and run programs. However, so...
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How I added 6 characters to Unicode (and you can too)
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Edit (June 2018): Unicode 11 is released, containing the half stars. Now the wait for font support... Star characters (☆★) have long b...
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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...
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