(This is a guest post by Rairii) Also, for the record: I started this project on 2025-06-22 (when I forked upstream openbios), no kind of coding agent or LLM was used, all coding, reversing and debugging work done by myself. I…
Although once little more than an academic endeavor, the RISC-V architecture is slowly supplanting applications that would have normally gone to ARM. Even a few microcontrollers have chips running thi... Although once little more than an academic endeavor, the RISC-V…
We’re live on YouTube and 𝕏. The current thing in tech and business is Anduril & Qualcomm’s new American-made laptop. Re:Build Co-Founder & CEO Miles Arnone at 12:00 PM Ramp CTO Rahul Sengottuvelu at 12:10 PM Atreides Management Managing Partner & CIO Gavin Baker…
The Apple news just keeps coming. With just one day to go before the "Pro and Tell" event in Los Angeles, Apple is dripping out smaller announcements as appetizers. One of the announcements on Tuesday morning was the unveiling of…
Apple has influenced everything from unibody laptop cases to high-res screens. No matter what you think of Apple or its hardware, there's no doubt that MacBooks have been the defining laptops of the last two decades. PC makers rushed to…
By Luke Dormehl • 8:23 am, October 26, 2026 By Luke Dormehl • 8:26 am, October 23, 2026 October 23, 2001: Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduces the first iPod, a device capable of storing an entire music library in a highly portable package. The first-generation device boasts a 5GB hard drive…
Apple’s Intel-powered Mac Pro that launched in 2019 was certainly a powerhouse of its time, but with new PC hardware eclipsing the workstation’s capabilities, there needs to be a way to swap out all the parts. Turns out there’s a way,…
Here is a story from DSP bring-up in the early 2000s. I used Excel when I was bringing up new digital signal processors that had their own instruction sets. The tools were still being developed. We did not want or need…
By Luke Dormehl • 9:53 am, October 25, 2026 October 25, 2003: Mac OS X Panther arrives on Macintosh computers, bringing several useful new features and making Apple’s Safari web browser the default for the first time. The new Exposé feature in Panther (aka Mac OS…
The floppy had many problems throughout its lifespan, however. Even later versions with hard casings were notoriously fragile. An ill-fated brush with a fridge magnet, marginally rough handling, and the phase of the moon were enough to cause data loss…
Old computers and the people who keep them running: Commodore, Amiga, Atari and early Macs, restorations and new hardware for old machines.
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