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Re:Reverse engineering the iTunesDB File Format by kqr2 on Thursday November 27, 2008 @04:58AM (#378567)
Actually, the Apple II/II+ introduced in the late 1970s was quite open and a period of innovation for home computing. Apple even included the schematics as well as source code listing for their basic interpreter.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_2

Re:Reverse engineering the iTunesDB File Format by rbanffy on Thursday November 27, 2008 @12:32PM (#378782)
At that time, you could look at the motherboard and figure out (or follow the traces on both sides) how everything worked.

I kind of did that with my first Apple II.