Gooey rubber that's slowly ruining old hard drives(downtowndougbrown.com)

259 points by zdw 1 year ago | 177 comments

How Apple's developers reflashed Mac ROMs in the '90s(downtowndougbrown.com)

178 points by SerCe 2 years ago | 76 comments

Finding a 27-year-old easter egg in the Power Mac G3 ROM(downtowndougbrown.com)

374 points by zdw 1 year ago | 109 comments

Blog post by Doug Brown describing his discovery of an undocumented easter egg hidden in the Power Macintosh G3 ROM using Hex Fiend.

The capacitor that Apple soldered incorrectly at the factory(downtowndougbrown.com)

488 points by zdw 1 year ago | 220 comments

Blog post investigating whether Apple installed a capacitor backwards at the factory in the Macintosh LC III and Performa 450-467, analyzing the circuit.

How I fixed the infamous Basilisk II Windows “Black Screen” bug in 2013(downtowndougbrown.com)

69 points by zdw 1 year ago | 7 comments

What happened with ASUS routers this morning?(downtowndougbrown.com)

699 points by zdw 3 years ago | 437 comments

Blog post by Doug Brown investigating a widespread May 2023 outage where ASUS routers lost connectivity and ran out of memory, unable to fork processes.