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Finding a broken trace on my old Mac with the help of its ROM diagnostics

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Debugging BeagleBoard USB boot with a sniffer: fixing omap_loader on modern PCs

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An update about the hidden Performa 550 recovery partition

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Finding a 27-year-old easter egg in the Power Mac G3 ROM

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Modifying an HDMI dummy plug’s EDID using a Raspberry Pi

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Please don’t ship heavy, fragile vintage computers. They will be destroyed.

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How I fixed the infamous Basilisk II Windows “Black Screen” bug in 2013

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Apple’s long-lost hidden recovery partition from 1994 has been found

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The gooey rubber that’s slowly ruining old hard drives

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The invalid 68030 instruction that accidentally allowed the Mac Classic II to successfully boot up

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