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History / LocalTalk Chip (TashTalk)

Revisions

  • Pages start with their first paragraph: GitHub already shows each page's name as its title, so the heading repeating it showed twice

    @wr wr committed Oct 26, 2026
  • The settings page's new wording: TashTalk flash errors, the chip's card, DIP switch 4, and the status names Offline and The last job failed (W-1100)

    @wr wr committed Oct 25, 2026
  • American spelling, and the AppleTalk port by one name (W-1100)

    @wr wr committed Oct 25, 2026
  • LocalTalk Chip: the AppleTalk Port card says when the chip is missing, and flashes a blank one

    @wr wr committed Oct 21, 2026
  • Settings page: one layout for every section, ordinary controls, new footer The page's firmware section now holds installing from a file, the address sits under printer with copy, auto-update is a checkbox, the cable section's test key offers flash only when the chip needs it, and the footer shows Wells Workshop, GitHub and Donate. Any crossover cable works, not only Apple's: Home, Setup, Troubleshooting and Test Button say so, and the Troubleshooting heading is now "The cable must be a crossover".

    @wr wr committed Oct 18, 2026
  • Status lights: the measured palette, Setup's blue double blink, pink updates, four LocalTalk stripes

    @wr wr committed Oct 17, 2026
  • Cable test: the answer along the bottom between the ports, and what it says with no LocalTalk chip

    @wr wr committed Oct 16, 2026
  • LocalTalk Chip (TashTalk): the 3D render of the chip going into its socket, in place of the flat drawing Rendered from the shop's own models of the board and the PIC, with the chip lifted clear of the board and dashed guides down to its socket holes.

    @wr wr committed Oct 16, 2026
  • LocalTalk Chip (TashTalk): draw the socket empty, as a builder finds it, with its notch toward the ESP32-S3 module

    @wr wr committed Oct 16, 2026
  • LocalTalk Chip (TashTalk): a drawing of the board showing where the chip goes and which way round Drawn from hardware/airwriter/airwriter.kicad_pcb (rev A), front, ports toward you, with a close-up of the socket: the notch goes at the right-hand end, toward the ESP32-S3 module.

    @wr wr committed Oct 16, 2026
  • LocalTalk Chip (TashTalk): what the chip is, fitting a blank one, flashing it, and what the panel and page say Linked from the sidebar, Home, Vintage Macs, Settings and Updates, Status Lights (with the failed-flash GIF) and Test Button. Settings and Updates no longer says the localtalk section shows only with the chip fitted: it shows on every AirWriter.

    @wr wr committed Oct 16, 2026