About
Tony Atkins is an electronics builder based in the Pacific Northwest.
The day job is in cybersecurity. That means spending years thinking about what makes systems trustworthy and where they fall apart, and developing a deep appreciation for secure design along the way. Outside work, the pull is vintage computing hardware. Barely Booting is where those two interests connect: bringing modern cryptography and properly engineered networking to machines that were built long before TLS existed.
The current focus is NetISA, an ISA expansion card that gives pre-Pentium PCs a working path to the modern internet. Future projects follow the same pattern: new hardware, built carefully, for old computers that deserve to keep running.
Everything is open source. Schematics, firmware, CPLD logic, documentation, build logs, test suites. The goal is for anyone to be able to build one.