Month November 2021

Yellowstone beta test cards

Call For Yellowstone Beta Testers

Here we go! Beta testing kicks off today for the Yellowstone universal disk controller for Apple II. Yellowstone is a replacement for the Liron disk controller, the Apple 3.5 disk controller, and the standard Disk II controller, all rolled into…

ROM-inator Resurrections board installed in a Mac

ROM-inator Resurrections

Good news! Kay Koba at Kero’s Mac Mods store is now selling pre-packaged ROM-inator kits for the Macintosh Plus, Mac 512Ke, 512K, and 128K. This is a recreation of the original Mac ROM-inator kit that I designed in 2015. The…

Zener voltage regulator schematic

Zener Regulator Trouble

In my attempts to resolve some logic level problems with the Yellowstone Tester, I decided to take a crude approach, and reduce the 5V supply to about 4.7V using a simple zener diode voltage regulator. From my previous tests with…

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