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Were any IBM mainframes ever run multiuser?
Awarded Mar 26 at 10:05
What is a Dumb Terminal?
Awarded Jan 11 at 18:15
Why was computer memory so expensive and scarce?
Awarded Jan 10 at 8:07
Why do Game Boy Colors not want nickel-cadmium batteries?
Awarded Jan 9 at 8:56
How did the Commodore 64 show a picture while reading cassette?
Awarded Nov 15, 2021 at 19:41
Was there a technical advantage to such tall PC tower cases?
Awarded Oct 13, 2021 at 23:48
Why doesn’t my VGA-to-HDMI converter work with my 286 PC?
Awarded Sep 6, 2021 at 7:48
What's the origin of terminating strings by setting the high bit of the last character?
Awarded Jul 23, 2021 at 8:05
DOS serial printer formats
Awarded Jun 22, 2021 at 9:12
How did early laser printers get by with so little memory?
Awarded Apr 13, 2021 at 15:18
What was the earliest system to explicitly support threading based on shared memory?
Awarded Feb 12, 2021 at 16:50
Why did decimal arithmetic slow down VisiCalc?
Awarded Nov 24, 2020 at 14:01
Why user-assembled kits?
Awarded Nov 21, 2020 at 13:36
Original Mac clock frequency
Awarded Apr 27, 2020 at 5:10
Why weren't audio decoders used to create a makeshift internet in the 70 and 80s?
Awarded Jan 4, 2020 at 19:15
Why is the processor instruction called "move", not "copy"?
Awarded Dec 6, 2019 at 17:15
Why is the Intel 8086 CPU called a 16-bit CPU?
Awarded Jul 18, 2019 at 13:10
Why weren't bootable game disks ever common on the IBM PC?
Awarded Jul 9, 2019 at 11:45
What happens when a terminal (like a VT100) is connected to a computer?
Awarded Jul 4, 2019 at 15:55
Single level file directory
Awarded Jun 26, 2019 at 16:20
Why wasn't ASCII designed with a contiguous alphanumeric character order?
Awarded Jun 26, 2019 at 9:35
Why was the shrinking from 8″ made only to 5.25″ and not smaller (4″ or less)?
Awarded Apr 3, 2019 at 17:15
Was it possible to send data over the phone-line without a modem?
Awarded Feb 27, 2019 at 20:35
WordStar's "column mode"
Awarded Jan 30, 2019 at 21:00
Why didn't PostScript eliminate the need for printer drivers?
Awarded Jan 21, 2019 at 21:35
Why did trackballs disappear?
Awarded Jan 18, 2019 at 16:00
Are there vintage or historical bitmapped fonts available for non-commercial use?
Awarded Jan 1, 2019 at 10:20
How to use USB flash drives with Windows 98 SE?
Awarded Oct 18, 2018 at 1:50
Last computer not to use octets / 8-bit bytes
Awarded Oct 12, 2018 at 17:25
Were later MS-DOS versions still implemented in x86 assembly?
Awarded Oct 8, 2018 at 0:55
History of Ctrl-S and Ctrl-Q for flow control
Awarded Aug 13, 2018 at 9:40
What were the real competitors to the early IBM PC?
Awarded Jul 12, 2018 at 20:53
How were files transferred between different systems in the late 1980s?
Awarded May 29, 2018 at 15:26
Why were teletype printers not used for DOS computers?
Awarded Feb 8, 2018 at 21:14

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