Category Archives: hardware
Bridging ExpressCard to PCIe for LTO
In the mid-1990’s I worked as a photoshop jockey for the Sydney Morning Herald and other Fairfax Media newspapers. At that time we would regularly send a photographer into the field with a large Pelican case that held a digital … Continue reading
Atari 2600 hardware mod
This week, much of the gaming world focused the release of GTA V from Rockstar Games. I found some spare time to get an old Atari system cleaned up and working by installing an atari 2600 composite output mod. After … Continue reading
Apple’s new sales feature
Time was when purchasing an Apple computer was a pleasant experience. You went into your local Apple Store and browsed around. Maybe you did this a few times, poking at all the shiny machines on display. Eventually, one one of … Continue reading
When RAID-edition doesn’t mean “will work in a RAID”
At work last year I built out a home-grown RAID solution to support my current project. RAID stands for Redundant Array of Independent Disks. RAID technology has been around since the 1970s and provides both a way to use multiple … Continue reading