Finding a 27-year-old easter egg in the Power Mac G3 ROM(downtowndougbrown.com)
374 points by zdw | 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.
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Convert photos to Atkinson dithering(gazs.github.io)
404 points by nvahalik | 47 comments
A browser tool styled like classic Mac OS that converts uploaded photos into Atkinson-dithered black-and-white images using HTML canvas.
The capacitor that Apple soldered incorrectly at the factory(downtowndougbrown.com)
488 points by zdw | 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.
Move Fast and Abandon Things(engineersneedart.com)
415 points by JKCalhoun | 193 comments
A blog post by the author of Glider recalling unfinished Mac games he wrote decades ago, recovered from old hard drives and shared as disk images for emulators.
How to copy a file from a 30-year-old laptop(unterminated.com)
551 points by tfvlrue | 257 comments
A personal blog post describing how the author transferred files off a 1994 Apple PowerBook Duo 280c laptop.