More fun with Apple's internal tools: creating a PDS card

[todsacerdoti]

https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2023/12/more-fun-with-apples-internal-tools-creating-a-pds-card/

[allenrb]

Ah, the days when signals changed slowly, gently enough to wire them up by hand.

We’ve gained a lot in the intervening ~30 years but lost a little bit too.

[NavinF → allenrb]

20gbps passive USB-c cables were often wired by hand. Machines with the required dexterity to line up the connector used to be too expensive and AFAIK some cables are still made by hand today

[johnwalkr → NavinF]

Assembled by hand, sure. But that's different from a bunch of wires on a breadboard.

[tjoff → NavinF]

That is wild! Do you have more info?

[therein]

Here is a more recent Apple Internal Tool.

https://www.theiphonewiki.com/wiki/PurpleRestore

[The_SamminAter → therein]

Some of their tools are definitely interesting to poke at, but many are locked to internal Apple use by requiring resources only available on their internal VPN. Some more recent samples are available here: https://archive.org/details/apple-home-diagnostic-pkg