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Mac SE/ARM

Posted by: Bunsen on 2011-08-20 03:57:05 A gutted SE/30 and a Seagate Dockstar NAS combined into a 1.2GHz ARM server - with both a homebrew ADB converter to use the original keyboard, and a homebrew ARM Cortex GPU to run the original analog board and CRT. http://spritesmods.com/?art=macsearm

Posted by: Trash80toHP_Mini on 2011-08-20 04:37:41 Wow! 8-o Very impressive! 😎 No time to read the .TXT right now, gotta get to the beach! Lookin' forward to it though! :approve:

Posted by: dougg3 on 2011-08-20 10:11:00 WOW! That is an awesome collection of hacks! I like the SD card reader disguised as a floppy disk 🙂

Posted by: Bunsen on 2011-08-20 11:37:02 Yup, that dude does some interesting work 🙂 Check out the rest of his hacks.

Posted by: techknight on 2011-08-20 20:53:56 Ya i remember reading this awhile back, i think he used an open source emulator compiled on top of the ARM CPU.

Posted by: Bunsen on 2011-08-23 10:33:33 Emulating the original Mac was an afterthought, from my reading: the point of the exercise was a convenient small Linux server.

Posted by: mcdermd on 2011-08-23 16:32:49 It's cool that the emulator uses zterm through a virtual serial port to shell back into the server.

Posted by: tmtomh on 2011-08-23 20:53:07 Yeah, that thing is amazing, on pretty much every level.

Posted by: Gorgonops on 2011-08-24 08:10:40 I'd put the over/under as to whether the guy who made this has a girlfriend somewhere around a hundred to one. ;^) This really is an insane piece of work, particularly the roll-your-own USB video adapter.

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