Insanely Digital
Dedicated to the restoration of vintage Apple computer technology.
Writing
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Two Emulators, One Wire
Writing software for a thirty-year-old protocol has one problem that nothing else quite prepares you for: you need someone to talk to. So we put a Macintosh SE/30 and an Apple IIgs on the same virtual LocalTalk bus, and made them prove it.
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Nobody Wrote It Down
StuffIt — the archive format that essentially every Macintosh file passed through between 1988 and 2005 — has no specification. There are millions of .sit files in the world, and no document that says what one is.
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The Files You Cannot Type
There is a file on your old Macintosh disks that you have almost certainly never seen, cannot create, cannot rename, and have probably destroyed. It is called Icon, and it ends with a carriage return.
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Dual Voltage Early Macintosh Power Supply
The dual voltage power supplies in Mac 128, Mac 512 and Mac Plus work by using two capacitors in series. They function as 220-240V units but can switch to 120V with a wire link or external switch.
