Downtown Doug Brown

I went kind of overboard looking into issues with Altera USB Blaster clones a couple of years ago.

Last year, I bought a Macintosh Performa 410 on eBay.

Last year, I repaired an NZXT Signal 4K30 USB capture device that I bought on eBay for cheap.

I’m no stranger to pushing hardware past its limits.

Yesterday, for the first time in about a year, I tried powering on the Macintosh Performa 450 (LC III) from my past writeup about Apple’s backwards capacitor.

This post is about the original OMAP3530 BeagleBoard from 2008.

Earlier this year, I wrote about how I rescued a special recovery partition from an old Macintosh Performa 550’s dead hard drive.

I was recently poking around inside the original Power Macintosh G3’s ROM and accidentally discovered an easter egg that nobody has documented until now.

I recently found myself needing to change the monitor that a cheap HDMI “dummy plug” pretended to be.

As part of my research into the Macintosh Performa 550’s factory recovery partition, I paid a lot of attention to eBay listings for these computers.

I’ve been noticing a lot of fun stories lately about bugs in old software that suddenly showed up in newer Windows versions.

In my last post about hard drives that go bad over time, I hinted at having rescued a lost piece of obscure Apple software history from an old 160 MB Conner hard drive that had its head stuck in the parked position.

As part of my work toward an upcoming post about a lost piece of very obscure Mac history that has finally been found, I’ve been playing around with old Apple-branded SCSI hard drives made by Quantum and Conner in the 1990s.