I build hardware and software for old PCs. Sometimes the original parts are getting hard to find. Sometimes I want to understand how something worked. Sometimes I have a bad idea and a soldering iron. Those projects end up here.
Projects
Atlas 286
A BIOS for 286 PCs that I'm writing from scratch.
Status: boots DOS on my real Packard Bell PB686; working toward 1.0.
Latest
- 2026-10-25: The test harness failed before the BIOS did
- 2026-10-24: The original arrived
- 2026-10-23: From EPROM burner to ROM emulator