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@demik did an EU group buy but I think it's done now. If there's sufficient interest, I can do something similar. In the absence of that, if anyone wants to do a build on their own, I can provide programmed PIC12F1501s, at least.

Nice! Hopefully that recording is after some effects were applied...

Well, it's been almost two years since I last posted on this project, and over three years since I started trying to spear the white whale that is a full-featured open-source Mac floppy drive emulator. Here's what's been going on and where things stand now. By way of background, one of the...

Should be soon, I've got the PCBs and I've ordered parts, so maybe a week from now. Will post in this thread when they're available again.

Look, I get it. I wish the whole world was open source, too. But regardless of what you may think, this is someone's work, something into which they put considerable time and effort, and how and even if they decide to make it available is their decision and no one else's. Making the case for...

These are really exciting developments! Not sure if I can do anything of value but cheer from the sidelines, but I'm happy to do that, at least.

I have some of those miniDIN-5s, and not only do they look like a pain to solder, I don't think they fit in the recessed connector on the PK Pro 200. You could make a reasonable cable, I think, by taking a good S-video cable (one with four separate wires in it) and yanking out the key on one...

The 5-pin DIN is only seen on the PowerKey Pro 200, as far as I know. I believe the PowerKey Classic's Y cable just tees the 4-pin DIN straight. Yeah, I got my hands on one of these recently, only to find it's not actually a device on the ADB bus, it just pulls the ADB power-on line low when...

Interest check time! I'm considering putting together some TashPad kits for the US audience. I haven't priced out such an endeavor but I assume it'd wind up being similar to @demik 's EU group buy, that is, somewhere in the neighborhood of $30 for the PCB, parts, the case, and the case front...

ADBDB kits are back in stock over at my Ko-fi shop!

I've made up some kits for new DE-9 PhoneNet dongles and put them up for sale on my Ko-fi shop.

Interesting, the specs on page 11 are the same as those given in Appendix A of Inside AppleTalk, and the specs on page 4 are similiar but slightly more permissive... Like @cheesestraws said, though, it has an odor of "this is what we used" rather than "this is what is required" about it. The...

Looking into it more, MicroPython's threading support is "highly experimental", which is a problem, TashRouter depends heavily on threads. I like the idea of using MicroPython, though, I hope they get that together soon.

The idea of using MicroPython is an interesting one that I might have to dig into more - the prospect of not having to rewrite the whole affair is very appealing... Interesting stuff, thanks for the tips.

One sort of runs into the problems of price and complexity in trying to make a standalone device that fits that description. A Raspberry Pi plus a preloaded SD card and a TashTalk hat could form a plug-and-play solution, but a Raspberry Pi is a full fledged computer and can do much more than...

I've been thinking about this project a lot over the past few days and I've come to the unfortunate conclusion that it doesn't make sense. The complexity of the task is such that it's too much for an 8-bit PIC, and if I move on up to a system like an ESP32, at that point, why not just implement...

Very interesting! Thanks for digging into this. I might be able to do this on a PIC, though it seems only marginally less complicated than implementing a router, heh. I guess the principal data structure is simpler, at least, which helps when you've got a very small amount of memory to work...

The bridge is going to have to have its own node address, at least on the LT side, isn't it? Otherwise, where do LT nodes send packets bound for different network numbers (and where do such packets come from when inbound?) It sort of sounds like the concept of a "bridge" requires the bridge to...

This is probably a long shot considering how rare MacCharlies are, but... I find myself curious about the keyboard unit that came with them. If it plugged into the Mac's keyboard port (the one with the 4P4C phone headset-type jack), it's one of a very small number of devices that did, and maybe...

MacvtapPort uses a different kind of network interface from a tap, a macvtap. Documentation on macvtaps is a bit scanty, but it's a sort of combination of a tap and a bridge. As for switching, it's just another method of getting EtherTalk connectivity, not necessarily better nor worse - if it...