Retrocomputing Beta

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What's the terminal/home computer used as a prop in the computer school in Superman 3?
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What is the reason of losing of save data in some NES games? How to prevent?
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Why did IBM develop 5250 block mode terminals when 3270 already existed?
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What’s the most advanced os I can run on a non memory management pdp11 (ie 11/20)
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How can a Z80 assembly program find out its own memory address?
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What was novel about the Atari ST? Did it introduce any innovations?
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Why would a NES game use an undocumented 1-byte or 2-byte NOP in production?
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Any ways to have an architecture with a different base than base16?
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Where can I donate my old Computer Shopper Magazines to make sure they get scanned and shared?
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What was the first Unix version to run on a microcomputer?
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Why were “data modems” so much more expensive compared to “fax modems” back in the day?
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Could CGA synchronize with vertical blank?
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What is the origin of this bizarre advert of people wearing swimsuits in a room with computer hardware?
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Did many programs really store years as two characters (Y2K bug)?
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In what way could the Sperry Univac BC-7 computer “speak and understand” English?
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What languages are better fit for generating efficient code for 8-bit CPU's than C?
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Did many programs really store years as two characters (Y2K bug)?
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Did many programs really store years as two characters (Y2K bug)?
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Did many programs really store years as two characters (Y2K bug)?
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Did many programs really store years as two characters (Y2K bug)?
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What languages are better fit for generating efficient code for 8-bit CPU's than C?
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Did many programs really store years as two characters (Y2K bug)?
Awarded Jun 20 at 21:21
Why the disparity between the screencodes and the character codes?
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Why were computer customers called “Users”?
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Why did later CPUs use microcode instead of PLA's?
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Why were computer customers called “Users”?
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Why were computer customers called “Users”?
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Why were computer customers called “Users”?
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Why were computer customers called “Users”?
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Why were computer customers called “Users”?
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Why were computer customers called “Users”?
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What specific technical advance(s) allowed PCs to play “Full-screen full-motion” video?
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Is there a Commodore 64 emulator that can profile running code?
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How did people use ed?
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How did dot matrix printers do Landscape?
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Does the “Amiga Client for Novell NetWare” exist?
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What exactly was the Amiga Ranger?
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Cambridge Z88 Production Run
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Did the Commodore 128's Z80 CPU also have full access to the machine's custom hardware?
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Why was 'echo on' chosen as the default setting within batch scripts in MS-DOS?
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Opening a .zbd file
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How can a Z80/8080/6502 use VGA?
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What is the layout of the directory track on a TRS-80 Model I/Model III disk?
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Sharp Super Scientific EL-9000 English Manual
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Is there a “most correct” name for the disk format / filesystem used by Amstrads and Spectrum +3's?
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History of non-American software/hardware/CS theory development, 1940s-1980s?
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When and why did high-level language compilers start targeting assembly language rather than machine code?
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History of non-American software/hardware/CS theory development, 1940s-1980s?
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History of non-American software/hardware/CS theory development, 1940s-1980s?
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Cambridge Z88 Production Run
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When and why did high-level language compilers start targeting assembly language rather than machine code?
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History of non-American software/hardware/CS theory development, 1940s-1980s?
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When and why did high-level language compilers start targeting assembly language rather than machine code?
Awarded May 26 at 4:03
What's the relationship between the Nascom computers and the company Lucas Electrical?
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Why does Sinclair BASIC have two formats for storing numbers in the same structure?
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How did Windows 95 verify the Certificate of Authenticity?
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Is it true that Pentium III was faster than its successor Pentium 4?
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Why did the original design of COM on Windows rely on the registry?
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Which are the earliest real-time text editors?
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