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Hacking Apple's 1994 Set Top Box System

oldvcr.blogspot.com Apple's Interactive Television Box: hacking the Set Top Box System 7.1 in ROM

One of the coolest things to come along in the 68K Mac homebrew community is the ROM Boot Disk concept. Classic Macs have an unusually lar...

Apple developed the STBs in their Austin, Texas campus. It was based on stripped-down 1993 Quadra 605 hardware with extra silicon for the media features but kept serial, ADB and SCSI connections to allow it to run compatible CD-ROMs, sort of a Pippin before the Pippin, with plans to sell it for $750 [2023 dollars about $1500]…

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