on 2/6/04 2:45 AM, Wouter de Waal at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all > > I've had a Classic Mac for a while, and I recently > acquired four more (one Classic, three Plusses). > > I'm a bit of a hardware hacker, and I love reverse > engineering stuff. I've opened two of the new Macs > already, the Classic has an exploded capacitor > which has lead to corrosion by the RTC -- will > have to fix that. > > I've found schematics and a lot of other interesting > information on the web, but what's strange is that > I didn't see ROM dumps or much information on the > firmware... I can't believe that the source for > the ROMs or the PAL equations etc have never been > leaked from Apple... strange :-) > > Why would I want to know? Well, with source code > for the ROMs and an idea of what's in the PALs > I'm sure I can stretch a Plus to about 12MB > RAM :-) > > Wouter the Retro Hardware Hacker > www.retro.co.za >
Greetings! Can't wait to see that 12MB Mac Plus. I'd want the how-to myself. Jeff -- Compact Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/>. Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Compact Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/compact.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/compact.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
