Steve

Steve is an ancient project by todays day and age when it comes to measuring time. Steve is also the codename for a Macintosh Serial Decoder I started developing roughly six years ago, somewhere along the line I picked it up again and started modernizing the code then put it back in the vault, there wasn't much of an interest for it then, but I was thinking that I should at least wrap it up somehow... so here we are, six years later and fiddling with the project once more.

I've made some significant improvements in decoding serials, so now it will somewhat handle 10, 11, 12 and 13 character long serials somewhat accurately. The database is slowly growing and things are slowly being connected to where it should be, to be able to somewhat accurately show the user what it is they have when they input a serial.

Steve has launched under VesperNet (accessible behind the Vesper DNS as well as on the public internet), and is eagerly accepting serial input over the HTTP protocol.
I might devolve the UI a bit and make some improvements here and there to better display data in a more readable format. Especially since I try to stick to HTML which is accessible to vintage browsers for most of my projects when they are web-enabled.

Open Source?
Yes and no!
Once I feel that the database has a good enough structure and contain as little fault as possible, I will be making the database available. The code however, will remain closed source.

It's a bit of a mess right now (the database), but is being cleaned, adjusted and improved at a steady pace.

What does it do?

Decodes serials
Look up model numbers
Look up machine order numbers
Check machine / peripheral data
Detailed hardware specifications
Parts database
Get parts lists based on hardware
... and more

There will be more information on Steve at a later date.

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