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Back in 1984 I wrote some games for Spectrum - Will they still be playable?
Awarded Apr 7 at 14:06
Does the industry continue to produce outdated architecture CPUs with leading-edge process?
Awarded Mar 9 at 14:57
What was the earliest system to explicitly support threading based on shared memory?
Awarded Feb 12 at 17:06
Advantage of RS-232 over 20mA current loop
Awarded Feb 5 at 14:51
I can't read DS 1MB floppy disks
Awarded Feb 2 at 9:50
Was memory corruption a common problem in large programs written in assembly language?
Awarded Jan 22 at 6:26
How do I slow down the emulation in VMware and make it go “proper fullscreen” for Windows 3.11?
Awarded Dec 27 '20 at 23:56
How can a Game Boy game “glitch-inherit” the music from a different game like this?
Awarded Dec 19 '20 at 17:48
How do I find out the REAL title of a given video game?
Awarded Dec 16 '20 at 13:04
Is there any text to speech program that will run on an 8- or 16-bit CPU?
Awarded Dec 6 '20 at 18:37
Why did MacOS Classic choose the colon as a path separator?
Awarded Nov 26 '20 at 13:17
Was AGP only ever used for graphics cards?
Awarded Nov 12 '20 at 6:15
Why were there no 32-bit or 64-bit versions of the m68k & 65xx lines of CPUs?
Awarded Oct 29 '20 at 20:49
Why are old CPUs like MOS Technology 6502 and Motorola 68000 considered better for real time systems applications than modern x86 based CPUs?
Awarded Oct 17 '20 at 9:12
Distinction between scientific and business computing
Awarded Oct 5 '20 at 13:27
Why didn't early single-chip CPUs support multiplication instructions
Awarded Sep 21 '20 at 1:27
Is there still no “digital version of PCBs and ICs” software that all future emulators can use?
Awarded Sep 14 '20 at 14:51
Build a hardware clone or emulator of Apple II?
Awarded Jul 3 '20 at 23:46
Could you manually eject a floppy quick enough to prevent data loss?
Awarded Apr 8 '20 at 18:20
On what computer did “JUMP” mean “don't jump?”
Awarded Feb 27 '20 at 4:01
Why weren't audio decoders used to create a makeshift internet in the 70 and 80s?
Awarded Jan 4 '20 at 3:30
Advice for heatsinking an old CPU
Awarded Dec 30 '19 at 15:00
How did humans interact with early computers without screens or sensors?
Awarded Dec 14 '19 at 18:40
Late 1970s and 6502 chip facilities for operating systems
Awarded Sep 19 '19 at 11:45
Was there a Western computer with blatantly missing instructions in the instruction set?
Awarded Feb 6 '19 at 19:05
386SX, NES and how much did data lines really cost anyway?
Awarded Jan 18 '19 at 8:20
Are there runnable Multics systems available?
Awarded Jul 6 '18 at 14:47

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