BARELY BOOTING

Old computers. New hardware. Questionable ideas.

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.

NetISA

An ISA card I'm designing to give DOS PCs modern HTTPS.

Status: design stage, not built yet.

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