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Awarded 1558 times.
Was Apple's automatic disk ejection mechanism patented?
Awarded Jun 5, 2023 at 2:25
Is it possible to write unit tests in Applesoft BASIC?
Awarded Jun 2, 2023 at 7:51
In this movie I see a strange cable for terminal connection, what kind of connection is this?
Awarded May 31, 2023 at 20:40
What does MOS 6507 do in Atari 2600 when you turn it on without a cartridge?
Awarded May 27, 2023 at 8:16
MC68000: address error in initial PC
Awarded May 23, 2023 at 1:30
Why was there never added C/C++ (native) support to HTML web pages?
Awarded May 20, 2023 at 10:41
Which ports are which on this Soviet ZX Spectrum clone?
Awarded May 19, 2023 at 6:49
How does the Apple II address more than 128KB of RAM?
Awarded May 18, 2023 at 16:06
Did the rm project remove itself during early development?
Awarded May 17, 2023 at 8:16
Assembly delay function for C64
Awarded May 15, 2023 at 11:34
Xerox 3700 Documentation?
Awarded May 13, 2023 at 7:20
Where is Mike Lesk's (circa 1973) "portable I/O package" for C?
Awarded May 13, 2023 at 1:51
What was the release date of the MOS 8502?
Awarded May 12, 2023 at 13:22
TI-83 Series Graphing Calculator Emulator
Awarded May 7, 2023 at 14:35
Does the old bitmapped version of the Tahoma font exist anywhere?
Awarded May 5, 2023 at 18:27
How was the order of Unicode block-quadrant characters chosen?
Awarded Apr 27, 2023 at 4:32
Help porting nasm code down from 386 to 8088 (shifts by more than 1 bit)
Awarded Apr 24, 2023 at 18:34
Original purpose of the Rich Header in PE files
Awarded Apr 23, 2023 at 19:57
Why was desktop CPU frequency so low in the late 1990s?
Awarded Apr 23, 2023 at 15:20
What is the history of SysV i386 calling convention for struct return?
Awarded Apr 19, 2023 at 17:32
Identify a late 90s game: keeping a floating carpet from being flooded
Awarded Apr 16, 2023 at 21:40
AT system without −5 V
Awarded Apr 16, 2023 at 2:20
What happened to Doug Engelbart's NLS?
Awarded Apr 13, 2023 at 17:05
What exactly was the intent and implementation of Apple DOS 3.3's volume concept?
Awarded Apr 10, 2023 at 21:42
ZX Spectrum interrupt handling: maskable and NMI
Awarded Apr 10, 2023 at 15:26
How did FOCAL convert strings to a number?
Awarded Apr 7, 2023 at 14:10
How does the Atari ST's VDI polygon filling algorithm work?
Awarded Apr 2, 2023 at 23:48
Why does invoking a bat file from another bat interrupt the first?
Awarded Mar 31, 2023 at 15:38
Commodore monitor to VGA or HDMI
Awarded Mar 28, 2023 at 6:25
When did HTTP start compressing text?
Awarded Mar 27, 2023 at 17:47
What is a DVD add on card?
Awarded Mar 20, 2023 at 8:35
"Mainframe" with Z80
Awarded Mar 17, 2023 at 19:21
Old game, probably electronic in movie Phantasm (1978)
Awarded Mar 16, 2023 at 19:07
Origin of UNIX symbolic links?
Awarded Mar 12, 2023 at 13:36
WIDTH command in MSX BASIC
Awarded Mar 9, 2023 at 3:26
Basic page layout program from the PrintMaster 2.0 era
Awarded Mar 6, 2023 at 17:27
BASIC line input buffer location on ZX Spectrum
Awarded Mar 6, 2023 at 4:16
Why did Windows 3.0 fail in Japan?
Awarded Mar 5, 2023 at 16:47
Identify those arcade games from a 1983 Brazilian music video
Awarded Mar 5, 2023 at 3:49
Microsoft Flight Simulator 1.0 "DIVIDE BY ZERO" command
Awarded Mar 4, 2023 at 2:27
Did any DOS compatibility layers exist for any UNIX-like systems before DOS started to become outmoded?
Awarded Mar 2, 2023 at 16:15
Did Digital Research clean-room MS-DOS?
Awarded Mar 1, 2023 at 13:49
What 386-specific features did Linux use?
Awarded Feb 28, 2023 at 16:48
Looking for help understanding a 'Reciproot' routine on the Manchester Mark I (1951)
Awarded Feb 27, 2023 at 20:36
Identify these old accounting machines
Awarded Feb 26, 2023 at 17:03
Intel "Kernel processor" or "OS Kernel"
Awarded Feb 26, 2023 at 9:28
Why was the graphical user interface version of Defrag removed?
Awarded Feb 24, 2023 at 8:06
What did Windows 2 do about varying aspect ratio?
Awarded Feb 23, 2023 at 18:48
How much slower was the 286 in protected mode?
Awarded Feb 23, 2023 at 18:48
Ada and its candidate languages
Awarded Feb 22, 2023 at 18:41
What were the 189 GUI design elements that Apple claimed 'look and feel' copyright over?
Awarded Feb 21, 2023 at 12:25
Can HIMEM.SYS be disabled in Windows ME’s IO.SYS?
Awarded Feb 18, 2023 at 15:50
Managing registers/memory effectively on the Z80
Awarded Feb 18, 2023 at 2:09
Did PATA controllers break backwards compatibilty at some point?
Awarded Feb 17, 2023 at 19:41
Memory requirements for undelete command
Awarded Feb 16, 2023 at 8:07
How does the 80287 process infinity values?
Awarded Feb 14, 2023 at 0:15
When did type punning through violating the strict aliasing rule become disallowed?
Awarded Feb 8, 2023 at 22:34
What is the mainframe in this image in Ireland?
Awarded Feb 8, 2023 at 21:21
Media formats in Windows for Workgroups 3.11
Awarded Feb 8, 2023 at 3:42
Discovering intended cable orientation with an older IDE controller
Awarded Feb 2, 2023 at 22:45
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