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Why did early ASCII have ← and ↑ but not ↓ or →?
Awarded Sep 12 at 19:49
Is there such a thing as a modern-manufactured, flat, fake CRT TV? [closed]
Awarded Sep 7 at 7:12
What was the typical amount of disk storage for a mainframe installation in the 1980s?
Awarded Sep 6 at 22:22
Dongle Support for 16 bit Program with Win 11 using WineVDM
Awarded Sep 4 at 11:11
Split screen function before 1970
Awarded Sep 3 at 8:11
What typeface was used on the DEC PDP-8/F faceplate?
Awarded Sep 2 at 9:58
about flag changes in 16-bit calculations on the MC6800
Awarded Aug 28 at 9:10
Why is one of the Intel 8042 keyboard controller outputs inverted?
Awarded Aug 28 at 4:32
Commodore 64 game top down tank on alien moon. Radioactive craters and repair stations for damage
Awarded Aug 22 at 18:03
Which BASIC dialect first featured a single-character comment introducer?
Awarded Aug 20 at 13:42
Installing Windows 2K using an external CD/DVD Drive on slightly modern hardware [closed]
Awarded Aug 18 at 11:07
How to read data from Philips P2000C over its serial port to a modern computer?
Awarded Aug 17 at 7:30
Windows 98 Msgsrv32 error during Setup
Awarded Aug 16 at 16:46
Has anyone run the Dhrystone MIPS 2.1 benchmark on a stock, 2.8MHz, Apple IIgs?
Awarded Aug 7 at 4:06
How do people print text on GUI on Win3.1/95/98/... before Win2000?
Awarded Jul 20 at 23:19
Did ARPANET hosts have some kind of name resolving before 1974?
Awarded Jul 17 at 6:48
identification of old computer used at CERN library
Awarded Jul 15 at 8:56
First operating system with system calls [closed]
Awarded Jul 14 at 19:26
Why doesn't sed have a j command?
Awarded Jul 11 at 12:48
What's the oldest software or algorithm still in general usage in its original form? [closed]
Awarded Jul 10 at 15:26
Mac Mini G4 not reinitialized
Awarded Jul 5 at 18:57
Help identify a 1980s vertical space shooter [closed]
Awarded Jul 1 at 16:32
Is the FOCAL syntax for Alphanumeric Numbers ("0XYZ") documented anywhere?
Awarded Jun 29 at 22:17
How to best use IX as a return stack
Awarded Jun 28 at 8:48
What actual purpose do accent characters in ISO-8859-1 and Windows 1252 serve?
Awarded Jun 27 at 9:06
What is the purpose of the M1 pin on a Z80
Awarded Jun 24 at 20:11
Commodore 128 bottom row of keys work with different shift keys
Awarded Jun 24 at 16:06
Why does the boot-up screen for Cruis'n USA (arcade version) display this strange text?
Awarded Jun 24 at 12:15
Connecting the PHI2 pins on W65C22 [closed]
Awarded Jun 22 at 14:21
Is the source code of Alan Dain Sample's m5 macro processor lost?
Awarded Jun 21 at 12:51
BIOS support for 286 Protected Mode
Awarded Jun 19 at 10:25
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Awarded Jun 14 at 14:36
Did any Famicom game use microphone for random seed?
Awarded Jun 14 at 13:46
What is this PSU connector? Compaq Portable motherboard
Awarded Jun 9 at 22:05
Printztronic on modern TV
Awarded Jun 8 at 12:16
How reliable is the floppy content listing information on a C64?
Awarded Jun 4 at 14:11
What is the full name of IBM CP-67/CMS' DUMPD command?
Awarded May 28 at 7:56
Can someone explain the logic behind Pause and Print Screen modifiers?
Awarded May 24 at 12:42
VT420: How can the five local function keys stop working?
Awarded May 22 at 21:31
I cleaned the grease off an old floppy drive’s motor; do I need to lubricate it?
Awarded May 15 at 11:34
How does the 8086 jump instruction work when the target address overflows?
Awarded May 13 at 16:25
How to read/write word from DECtape on SIMH?
Awarded May 13 at 14:50
ZenithZ89 System Font
Awarded May 9 at 18:06
A mixed first-person 3D/top-down 2D game for DOS, probably from the 1990s, about a boy protagonist escaping from being abducted by aliens
Awarded May 6 at 15:17
USB CD-ROM drive not working with Fujitsu Stylistic 3400
Awarded May 6 at 2:49
What does this triangle rasterization code do? What does it use a “depth cueing table” for? [closed]
Awarded May 3 at 17:18
In the 1999 movie The Matrix, what is the news reader software that is being used?
Awarded May 2 at 15:08
How to connect old Nokia 3220 phone to a modern computer? Or login to Drive on the phone? [to transfer data from phone]
Awarded May 1 at 16:42
When was the asterisk first used for "unsaved changes" and why?
Awarded Apr 23 at 15:00
Understanding the Need for Positive Sync Polarities in Sony PVM Monitors
Awarded Apr 21 at 21:20
Analog to PWM for Analog input on Retro game controller?
Awarded Apr 19 at 13:22
After creating HTML, why did Tim Berners-Lee bother creating HTTP? Why didn't he just write a HTML renderer for a FTP client?
Awarded Apr 15 at 7:05
Searching for a QuickBasic 2.0 book (not 4.5)
Awarded Apr 14 at 22:28
Using the reset button to enable double firing in Space Invaders on the Atari VCS\Atari 2600: was it a glitch or a hidden feature?
Awarded Apr 14 at 13:01
Is there any way to read current Interrupt Mode in Z80 machine code?
Awarded Apr 13 at 17:46
When did the floppy disk icon become the standard symbol for the “save” function in user interfaces?
Awarded Apr 12 at 15:51
Do people fix software bugs in old arcade games?
Awarded Apr 12 at 12:21
Are there recommended procedures to prepare a vintage software cassette tape before attempting to digitize it
Awarded Apr 10 at 3:33
Did any MS-DOS program ever use the System Request interrupt?
Awarded Mar 29 at 9:16
Building a "hello, world!" program using MPW
Awarded Mar 28 at 8:21
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