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How were the special effects achieved for the Kraftwerk Die Roboter 1978 music video?
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How did the CP1600 CPU supposedly make looping faster?
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How can I store a machine language program to disk?
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Why did 3.5" floppies win (and not another size)?
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Why do variable names in BASIC need type suffixes?
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How common was programming in C targeting 8-bit processors in 1983?
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When and where did the $ convention for hexadecimal literals originate?
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Odyssey game console: what's the deal with "English Control"?
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Why do old computers perform a long memory test on every boot?
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What are these weird long ISA slots on this 386 board? (not VLB)
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Why was the shrinking from 8″ made only to 5.25″ and not smaller (4″ or less)?
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What operations could early PC 3D accelerators perform?
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Why do some people say PHP was "Pretty Home Page"? Was it once PHP's real name?
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Native C compiler for Sinclair ZX Spectrum
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What's the deal with Commodore's RESTORE key?
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Did the Super Game Boy (1) run 2.5% or 4% faster than a Game Boy?
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Why was RS-232 12V?
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How do DOS games like DOOM benefit from a PCI graphics card?
Awarded May 6 at 23:11
Why did Visual Basic use parentheses for both function call and array access?
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Did any notable product use Intel's first RAM?
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What was the rationale behind 32-bit computer architectures?
Awarded Apr 21 at 13:23
How did the "Programmer's Switch" work on early Macintosh Computers?
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How did early laser printers get by with so little memory?
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How can a Z80 assembly program find out the address stored in the SP register?
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Did any processor have opposite endianness for instructions and data?
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Does the industry continue to produce outdated architecture CPUs with leading-edge process?
Awarded Mar 10 at 1:17
Why do Amiga Libraries have negative entry points?
Awarded Feb 26 at 20:35
How long can a floppy disk spin for before wearing out?
Awarded Feb 18 at 2:57
How did Woz write the Apple 1 BASIC before building the computer?
Awarded Feb 12 at 16:27
Why was "C:" chosen for the first hard drive partition?
Awarded Dec 5 '20 at 15:57
Is this a real system? Which one?
Awarded Dec 1 '20 at 19:20
Why did the 8087 need a special socket?
Awarded Nov 29 '20 at 21:30
Why did MacOS Classic choose the colon as a path separator?
Awarded Nov 27 '20 at 13:36
Why were pack-in games not usually incorporated on the console mainboard?
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What is the function of this strange IBM apparatus?
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Did IBM originally plan to use the 68000 in the PC?
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Processor and operating systems for automatic lifts/elevators
Awarded Nov 5 '20 at 16:04
Algorithm for Apple IIe and Apple IIgs boot/start beep
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How did games like Doom offer free trials? What was packaged in their free trial software packages?
Awarded Oct 29 '20 at 14:15
What did code on punch cards do with the other six bits per column?
Awarded Sep 10 '20 at 16:15
Glitch in the display of a Mac SE/30
Awarded Aug 31 '20 at 18:55
What did the DoD think Fortran lacked?
Awarded Aug 28 '20 at 16:21
What is the massive CD drive used in the movie "Licence to Kill"?
Awarded Aug 27 '20 at 19:42
Did MS-DOS itself ever use blinking text?
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Where and when did the `0x` convention for hexadecimal literals originate?
Awarded Aug 17 '20 at 15:56
Is the Coleco computer from The Simpsons based on a real computer?
Awarded Aug 12 '20 at 22:02
Is this an Amiga? If so, which model?
Awarded Aug 11 '20 at 10:42
Why were computer customers called "Users"?
Awarded Jul 20 '20 at 9:21
Why is the keyboard and cellphone / telephone numbers in a different order?
Awarded Jul 14 '20 at 9:46
Why is the clock frequency of the PS/2 keyboard protocol so high?
Awarded Jul 13 '20 at 18:47
Why did SCSI require so many pins?
Awarded Jul 11 '20 at 6:47
Could you reverse engineer silicon just by looking at it?
Awarded Jul 9 '20 at 17:08
In the Intel 8080, where does the "Stack" start?
Awarded Jun 28 '20 at 20:02
Did many programs really store years as two characters (Y2K bug)?
Awarded Jun 21 '20 at 5:17
Why did many 9-pin printers use only 8 pins for graphics?
Awarded Jun 12 '20 at 20:15
What were the HW specifications for the actual PC speakers, before they were replaced by buzzers?
Awarded Jun 8 '20 at 17:42
History of non-American software/hardware/CS theory development, 1940s-1980s?
Awarded May 26 '20 at 14:34
Why does the 80486 take longer to execute simple instructions than complex ones?
Awarded May 22 '20 at 11:57
Why does the Cray 2 use 400 Hz power, and why generate that from motors?
Awarded May 17 '20 at 0:49
Why did the original Apple //e have two sets of inverse video characters?
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