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  1. Tashtari

    Anyone have a MacCharlie keyboard unit?

    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 handset-type jack), it's one of a very small number of devices that did, and maybe...
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    TashPad: Super Nintendo to Gravis GamePad ADB Converter

    Elevate your game! Introducing... TashPad! Elevator Pitch It's a converter that makes a Super Nintendo/Super Famicom controller appear to an ADB Macintosh as a Gravis Mac GamePad. Used with the GamePad's control panel, it can be used to play all your favorite Mac games. I made the...
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    TashRouter: An AppleTalk Router

    For those of us not lucky enough to own a Shiva or a GatorBox... Introducing... TashRouter! Elevator Pitch It's an AppleTalk router written in Python that runs on modern hardware and supports LocalTalk (via TashTalk and/or LToUDP) and EtherTalk. Project Status Ready for some real-world...
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    Some stuff for fans of the IBM PC cassette interface

    So I've been doing some work on the IBM PC 5150's little-used cassette interface lately, and I've made a couple of projects that might be useful on the off chance that someone out there besides me cares about it. =) https://github.com/lampmerchant/cass5150 - cass5150, a Python library for...
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    TashTalk: Single-Chip LocalTalk Interface (v2 and RPi hats!)

    This project might be old news by now, but there have been a couple of new developments and I haven't announced it on TD yet, so here I go. (Re-)Introducing... TashTalk! Elevator Pitch It's a LocalTalk interface, contained entirely within a single Microchip PIC12F1840 (8 pins, ~$1.50)...
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    TashIO: Clone of BeeHive Technologies's ADB I/O

    Just a little Saturday project. Introducing: TashIO! Elevator Pitch It's a clone of BeeHive Technologies's ADB I/O, a device with analog and digital I/Os for automation, control, and interfacing to sensors and other devices. It has existing software support in C, RealBASIC, Fourth Dimension...
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    Tashtari's ADB Tools (also a plea for rare devices!)

    I've been trying to clean up and publish some of the tools I've been using for my ADB-related adventures. Neither of these are complex enough to warrant a TashName, but I want to put them out there just in case they might come in handy for someone else. I've made an ADB protocol analyzer...
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    TashTwenty - Single-Chip DCD (Hard Disk 20) Interface for Macintosh

    I've posted about this elsewhere but I'm new to TinkerDifferent and it doesn't seem to have been mentioned here yet, so... introducing: TashTwenty! Elevator Pitch It's a DCD (the interface used by the Hard Disk 20 to plug in through the disk port) interface, contained entirely within a...