Not long after my CARDiac,, my dad brought home an Apple ][+, which came with a schematic that revealed the inner workings of the machine in ways that I found visually striking, if significantly less accessible than the CARDiac:
https://downloads.reactivemicro.com/Apple%20II%20Items/Hardware/II_&_II+/Schematic/Apple%20II%20Schematics.pdf
(For me, at least. For the legendary hardware hacker Andrew "bunnie" Huang, it was the start of a journey that turned him into one of the world's virtuoso reverse-engineers and science communicators):
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/09/quantity-break/#so-many-chips
10/
Cory Doctorow
npub1yx…75qvv
2026-07-03 09:05:35 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…9203
Author Public Key
npub1yxzkmtuyctjw2pffp6e9uvyrkp29hrqra2tm3xp3z9707z06muxsg75qvvSeen on
wss://relay.ditto.pubPublished at
2026-07-03 09:05:35 UTCEvent JSON
{
"id": "296b985ff50824a18b8283513482182eb277a4bd1b6b119f69ecd3158366daa5",
"pubkey": "21856daf84c2e4e505290eb25e3083b0545b8c03ea97b89831117cff09fadf0d",
"created_at": 1783069535,
"kind": 1,
"tags": [
[
"e",
"a7f7183570847388c9f5b03b489fcd19f806e9b878dbb1d664127c6ec938c954",
"wss://relay.ditto.pub",
"reply"
],
[
"content-warning",
"Long thread/10"
],
[
"proxy",
"https://mamot.fr/users/pluralistic/statuses/116855245082024263",
"activitypub"
],
[
"client",
"Mostr",
"31990:6be38f8c63df7dbf84db7ec4a6e6fbbd8d19dca3b980efad18585c46f04b26f9:mostr",
"wss://relay.ditto.pub"
]
],
"content": "Not long after my CARDiac,, my dad brought home an Apple ][+, which came with a schematic that revealed the inner workings of the machine in ways that I found visually striking, if significantly less accessible than the CARDiac:\n\nhttps://downloads.reactivemicro.com/Apple%20II%20Items/Hardware/II_\u0026_II+/Schematic/Apple%20II%20Schematics.pdf\n\n(For me, at least. For the legendary hardware hacker Andrew \"bunnie\" Huang, it was the start of a journey that turned him into one of the world's virtuoso reverse-engineers and science communicators):\n\nhttps://pluralistic.net/2026/01/09/quantity-break/#so-many-chips\n\n10/",
"sig": "5d05bc1ea5a010d5e3de99330d12fe24712000a48ab9344544682405065a70699c969dae4914219d919cdef86ef38a85b7b2e125df09fd7ad6cecf98e19a58be"
}