Year 2021

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Canada Shipping is Back Online!

Good news: the International Shipping Fiasco of May 2021 appears to be resolved, although the underlying causes are still unclear. Early indications are it was some kind of USPS screw-up with electronic collection of customs data at the San Francisco…

Yellowstone 2.0 PCBs

Yellowstone 2.0 PCB

The Yellowstone version 2.0 PCBs are here! They sure look shiny. I wonder if they work. This is the second generation of my FPGA-based disk controller design for the Apple II. In comparison to the version 1.0 PCB, you can…

Off to the Fab!

The Yellowstone 2.0 disk controller PCB has been sent to the fab. Now we wait. It took longer than I planned to finish it, first because I wasted a couple of days trying to shrink the board by 7 mm,…

Yellowstone 2.0 PCB layout

Yellowstone 2.0 Layout and Route

It took longer than expected, but the PCB layout is finished for version 2.0 of the Yellowstone disk controller. Phew! There’s still a bit of cleanup work to be done before I send the board for manufacturing. Hopefully I can…

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