Holy cow, this is actually happening! After over a year of searching what seems like every warehouse and basement on the planet to scrounge for DB-19 connectors, I’m finally moving forward with the manufacture of new ones. As far as I’m aware,…
I’ve begun looking into options for a USB-to-ADB adapter, to enable use of modern USB keyboards and mice on vintage Macintosh and Apple IIgs hardware. There’s no real “meat” to this yet, as I’m just looking at parts availability and…
By popular demand, I’ve added a new feature to the Apple II firmware for the Floppy Emu disk emulator: auto-mounting of the previous floppy disk image. If you turn off the computer while a disk image is inserted in the…
It’s high time for a new project here at BMOW. These days I spend so much time on Floppy Emu, it’s hard to squeeze in anything else! A new project would help stir things up, and get the creative juices…
I’m working on a design for a “scribbling machine”, similar to the concept shown here from Make Magazine. For the past three years, I’ve led groups of children through a scribbling machine construction project at our school’s annual Discovery Day…
I put together a new demo video for the Floppy Emu Model B, since the old videos had become hopelessly out of date. Enjoy! Watch this video on YouTube
BMOW’s product Floppy Emu needs a male DB-19 connector to mate with vintage Apple computers, but these connectors haven’t been manufactured in decades. For two years I’ve been scraping by with “new old stock” DB-19’s from warehouses around the world,…
At last, BMOW is moving into the modern world with a new online storefront! As I mentioned in the Profit and Loss discussion a couple of weeks ago, the old solution of PayPal payment buttons and order tracking left much…
About a week ago, I added an SSL certificate to the BMOW web site, in preparation for some improved shopping cart features. With an SSL certificate signed by a certificate authority (free from Let’s Encrypt), the site can serve pages…
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