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Ancient Web: Somebody Built a Giant 6502

The MOnSter 6502 project recreates the classic MOS 6502 processor at transistor scale on a 12-by-15-inch circuit board with thousands of visible components. It turns an integrated circuit back into something you can point at.

Ancient Web: ParkyTowers Turns Dead Thin Clients Into Useful Computers

ParkyTowers documents how to identify, expand and repurpose obsolete thin-client computers, preserving model-specific hardware details that manufacturers often stop caring about.

Ancient Web: Glitch Works Repairs Vintage Computers Down to the Board Level

Glitch Works documents repairs, restorations, homebrew boards, obscure single-board computers, old UNIX hardware, CP/M systems, and the practical work required to make vintage machines function again.

Ancient Web: DigiCamHistory Stops in 1998 on Purpose

DigiCamHistory.com has been documenting the path from film cameras to early digital photography since 2001, with a deliberate focus on the pre-1999 hardware that mainstream camera sites usually skipped once digital photography exploded.

Ancient Web: Apple2.org Keeps the Apple II in Pictures

Tony Diaz's Apple2.org has documented Apple II hardware since the 1990s with hundreds of photographs, technical references, expansion cards, motherboards, accelerators, storage devices, and obscure accessories.

Ancient Web: MicroMac Is a Frozen Catalog of Mac Upgrades That Once Made Sense

MicroMac's surviving site preserves the strange, ingenious upgrade market that kept 1980s and 1990s Macintosh hardware useful through accelerators, logic-board swaps, cache cards, and oversized SIMMs.

Ancient Web: Android Arts Is a One-Person Internet of Games, Hardware, and Drawings

Android Arts is Arne Niklas Jansson's sprawling personal site of game redesigns, art tutorials, hardware projects, pixel work, electronics, tabletop ideas, and aggressively independent web philosophy.

Ancient Web: SegaLand Preserved the Hardware Side of Sega Fandom

SegaLand is an old fan-built Sega reference page from the era when console history lived in handmade sites, hardware lists, screenshots, and enthusiast-maintained documentation.

Ancient Web: Video Games 101 Froze Console Specs in the Era That Cared About Bits

Video Games 101 preserves quick hardware specs, short console histories and period commentary for systems from the NES through the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, plus handhelds and Tomb Raider material.

Ancient Web: Mike Willegal Rebuilt the Apple I and Revision-0 Apple II From the Board Up

Mike Willegal's long-running site documents Apple I and early Apple II recreation projects with schematics, assembly guides, board artwork and correspondence with Steve Wozniak.