Playing Zork 1 on a CP/M emulator on Linux (2021)(kevinboone.me)

33 points by linuxkernal 5 days ago | 14 comments

A tutorial on building the z80pack Z80 emulator and cpmtools on Linux to run CP/M 3 and play the Infocom text adventure Zork 1.

Running NetBSD on IBM ThinkPad 380Z(luke8086.dev)

146 points by jaypatelani 1 year ago | 40 comments

They don't make 'em like that any more: Dyson Pure Cool-Me personal air purifier(kevinboone.me)

27 points by thomasjb 1 year ago | 36 comments

Retrieving 1TB of data from a faulty drive with the help of woodworking tools(blog.jgc.org)

485 points by jgrahamc 3 years ago | 166 comments

John Graham-Cumming's blog post on recovering 1TB of data from a failed Seagate Firecuda 530 SSD in his gaming PC, using woodworking tools.

Linux on the Fujitsu Lifebook U729(borretti.me)

197 points by ibobev 1 year ago | 141 comments

Front-Panel Booting an ATmega88 Microcontroller(linusakesson.net)

32 points by robin_reala 1 year ago | 7 comments

I turned my ThinkPad into a programmable USB device(xairy.io)

322 points by true_pk 2 years ago | 91 comments

Andrey Konovalov's blog post explaining how to enable a hidden xDCI controller on ThinkPad laptops so they can emulate USB devices from Linux.

Fixing a bricked Framework laptop(quantum5.ca)

394 points by jp_sc 2 months ago | 264 comments

A personal blog post describing how the author recovered a Framework 13 AMD 7040 laptop bricked by a failed BIOS 3.20 update using about $20 of tools.

I maintain a 17 year old ThinkPad(pilledtexts.com)

544 points by Fred34 1 year ago | 482 comments

Blog post explaining why the author maintains a 2008 ThinkPad, using Taleb's ideas of fragility, robustness, and the Lindy Effect to compare it with a 2021 laptop.

Malware can turn off webcam LED and record video, demonstrated on ThinkPad X230(github.com)

976 points by xairy 1 year ago | 501 comments

GitHub repository by xairy with tools and firmware dumps for controlling the webcam LED on a ThinkPad X230, showing it can be disabled while recording.

A great old-timey game-programming hack (2013)(blog.moertel.com)

235 points by palsecam 2 days ago | 52 comments

Tom Moertel's 2013 blog post recounting an assembly-level hack used to speed up background tile drawing in an 8-bit 6809 side-scrolling game.

ThinkPad I9990303 Error Catch-22(os2museum.com)

33 points by userbinator 24 days ago | 5 comments

OS/2 Museum blog post on fixing a ThinkPad 750C I9990303 error by patching IBM's BIOS flash utility to bypass power management checks and reflash corrupted firmware.