Daily Archives: 2022-01-24

Article note: Oh, that's fun. The accepted documentation was tellingly nonsense, so they _taught themselves the tools_ to figure it out. That "tracing back to fundamentals" is one of the things I find most delightful about retro-computing. Working all the way back from a glitchy behavior, to a scope trace with unexpected timing, to "This thing is running a very sane serial protocol at the less-sane-sounding 18.958Hz frequency," to correlating to the components and determining that it ties back to a455kHz oscillator with a 24x divider, because 455kHz oscillators were common for AM radios.

Article note: I'm always hopeful that these incidents will teach the *ahem* managerial class about open source, the degree to which they rely on it, and the degree to which they haven't been paying, and make them start supporting their dependencies. It's not _likely_ because of the culture of crass exploitation, but ...yeah. Hopeful.

Article note: I'm always hopeful that these incidents will teach the *ahem* managerial class about open source, the degree to which they rely on it, and the degree to which they haven't been paying, and make them start supporting their dependencies. It's not _likely_ because of the culture of crass exploitation, but ...yeah. Hopeful.