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Build your own Dial-up ISP with a Raspberry Pi

Jeff Geerling · 2026-04-03 Cached

A guide on using a Raspberry Pi to emulate a dial-up ISP, connecting vintage Macs via Wi-Fi with simulated dial-up speeds.

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Restoring an Xserve G5: When Apple built real servers

Jeff Geerling · 2026-03-13 Cached

Jeff Geerling documents the restoration of an Apple Xserve G5 from 2004, including recapping its power supply and installing Mac OS X Server 10.3.

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Instruction decoding in the Intel 8087 floating-point chip

Ken Shirriff · 2026-02-14 Cached

A detailed reverse-engineering analysis of how the Intel 8087 floating-point coprocessor decodes instructions, explaining the interplay between the main CPU and coprocessor, the use of microcode ROM, and the bus interface unit.

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A tricky Commodore PET repair: tracking down 6 1/2 bad chips

Ken Shirriff · 2025-04-13 Cached

A detailed account of repairing a Commodore PET computer from 1977, involving diagnosing multiple bad chips and using adapter boards to replace obsolete ROMs.

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