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Old SCSI controller won't boot on certain PC
Awarded 20 hours ago
Why is the Intel 8086 CPU called a 16-bit CPU?
Awarded yesterday
Does the Intel 8085 CPU use real memory addresses?
Awarded Jul 16 at 0:20
Why is the order of the special characters on the keyboard like !@#$%^&*()? [duplicate]
Awarded Jul 14 at 5:00
What type of video card would be able to drive a VGA monitor that uses a standard HD 15 pin connector with a non VGA standard pinout?
Awarded Jul 13 at 9:35
Data retrieval from 5.25 floppy disks [closed]
Awarded Jul 13 at 9:30
What happened to the Apple Device SBC that was supposed to compete with the linux SBCs? [closed]
Awarded Jul 13 at 9:25
ZX Spectrum fault
Awarded Jul 13 at 9:25
Amiga 500+ does not start up [closed]
Awarded Jul 13 at 9:25
How did the Game Boy Advance stretch Game Boy games to widescreen?
Awarded Jul 12 at 20:40
What was this menu application in DOS?
Awarded Jul 11 at 17:55
Understanding C64 Character Memory
Awarded Jul 10 at 22:45
Old Conner IDE hard drives that are mistakenly detected as being 2TB, how do I connect to and image them?
Awarded Jul 10 at 12:20
Read HP Basic (RMB) tokenized file into clear text?
Awarded Jul 10 at 11:45
Why weren't bootable game disks ever common on the IBM PC?
Awarded Jul 8 at 13:25
Color Computer Expansion port “listening” bus
Awarded Jul 6 at 22:45
How do I use my adapted PS2 keyboard & mouse on a windows 10 computer?
Awarded Jul 6 at 11:35
What's the required battery voltage within a DALLAS DS12C887+ RTC? [closed]
Awarded Jul 3 at 7:25
Why has Novell never written its own boot loader?
Awarded Jul 3 at 4:45
On DOS computers, what would the PARK command do?
Awarded Jul 2 at 12:20
Why did moving the mouse cursor cause Windows 95 to run more quickly?
Awarded Jul 1 at 7:20
What kind of cable do I need to connect a Movemaster EX RV-M1 robotic arm to a PC?
Awarded Jun 30 at 16:55
What was the ASCII end of medium (EM) character intended to be used for?
Awarded Jun 30 at 0:20
Old game, possibly called “Demons”
Awarded Jun 27 at 23:50
What was the point of separating stdout and stderr?
Awarded Jun 27 at 21:00
Why did the Apple IIe make a hideous noise if you inserted the disk upside down?
Awarded Jun 26 at 23:15
Why wasn't EBCDIC designed with contiguous alphanumeric characters?
Awarded Jun 26 at 16:40
How did Satoru Iwata compress Pokemon GS to fit two regions on a single cartridge?
Awarded Jun 26 at 8:05
Why wasn't ASCII designed with a contiguous alphanumeric character order?
Awarded Jun 26 at 1:45
Extracting files from a Windows 3.1 (16bit) install/archive (game)
Awarded Jun 25 at 2:35
Horizontal hold on Atari 800xl connected to flat screen tv
Awarded Jun 24 at 20:20
Can Access Fault Exceptions of the MC68040 caused by internal access faults occur in normal situations?
Awarded Jun 24 at 15:50
how can I connect a scanner with Centronics 50 output to USB?
Awarded Jun 24 at 14:45
A way to connect Microsoft Green-Eyed mouse to modern computer?
Awarded Jun 23 at 23:20
AT system without -5v
Awarded Jun 23 at 8:20
Is there any tool to convert .DSK to mp3 file?
Awarded Jun 23 at 7:25
How well known and how commonly used was Huffman coding in 1979?
Awarded Jun 21 at 0:05
What was the format for .OBJ files produced by M80.COM for CP/M?
Awarded Jun 20 at 23:35
Anyone have more information on the “Hammerstein TV Games” 1st gen console?
Awarded Jun 19 at 16:25
What was the first third-party commercial application for MS-DOS?
Awarded Jun 17 at 13:00
Why does this Apple //e drops into system monitor when booting?
Awarded Jun 12 at 13:30
How to teach the Z80 to count milliseconds and microseconds like Arduino?
Awarded Jun 11 at 14:10
What did the 8086 (and 8088) do upon encountering an illegal instruction?
Awarded Jun 10 at 17:25
PlayStation 2 Slim with analog A/V output having noise interference issues
Awarded Jun 10 at 17:25
What are some notable historic keyboard designs with unusual colours? [closed]
Awarded Jun 7 at 8:00
Desk computer with embedded CRT, 8" floppy
Awarded Jun 7 at 7:25
Pac-Man-like: Playing a Excavator bucket or mining drill on a cable
Awarded Jun 6 at 21:05
90s game about a man with a revolver fighting demons
Awarded Jun 5 at 16:40
Why the DOS extender and DPMI were unavailable to DOS programs on 286 standard mode of Windows 3.0
Awarded Jun 5 at 5:10
Why VGA framebuffer was limited to 64kB window?
Awarded Jun 4 at 21:25
How did old MS-DOS games utilize various graphic cards?
Awarded Jun 3 at 23:20
How exactly do all control signals in 6502 work?
Awarded Jun 3 at 21:15
Why was the Sega Genesis marketed as a 16-bit console?
Awarded Jun 3 at 17:35
Was the output of the C64 SID chip 8 bit sound?
Awarded Jun 3 at 15:15
Z80N multiply compared to MC68000 [closed]
Awarded Jun 1 at 23:15
Did the first version of Linux developed by Linus Torvalds have a GUI? [closed]
Awarded Jun 1 at 19:25
When and why would MacinTalk say “open-apple hold”?
Awarded Jun 1 at 15:40
can i build a colecovision ac adapter
Awarded May 30 at 10:15
Where are the pullups for the Commodore 64 keyboard matrix lines?
Awarded May 30 at 8:15
Atari 1040ST AV video output - blurred and jagged vertical edges
Awarded May 30 at 8:00
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