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Why did IBM 7030 or IBM 360 use byte and word addressing simultaneously
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1990s BBS game featuring mining elements from a planet
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What are quick ways to load downloaded tape images onto an unmodified 8-bit computer?
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What are the electrical properties of the EAR and MIC sockets on a ZX Spectrum, and can they be connected between machines?
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What is the arcade game played in the "The Boys Next Door" movie?
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Why does Sinclair BASIC have all of the characters twice in the token table?
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What are the HSync and VSync frequencies of these common VGA tweak modes?
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Where can I find the code of the ancestors of the WebKit family of web browsers?
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Did the Oric-1 improve on the Spectrum's keyboard?
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Installing 98SE without USB/CDROM to IDE drive - Invalid System Disk [closed]
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Why does the Manchester Baby have two jump instructions?
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What is the protocol for bootstrapping a Game Boy Advance over a link cable?
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Did the Z8000 ever hit the home computer market?
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Is it possible in Commodore BASIC V2.0 to configure the system so that the PRINT command does not update color?
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I get I/O errors when writing a disk image to a new old-stock floppy in a USB drive. How can I resolve this?
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Cartridge modems - was the Vic-20 a special case?
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How was dataflow analysis performed before SSA?
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Why did 1990s-2000s LCD all use 60 Hz refresh?
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Identify a late 90s game: keeping a floating carpet from being flooded
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Effective speed of original COSMAC VIP CHIP-8 interpreter
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What were the alternative graphic cards for the Apple II?
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How-to destroy sensitive data on floppies?
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Did a serial port card reader sink the prospects of consumer chip card readers?
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How do I store data and/or code in AUX RAM on an Apple //e?
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Was it ever possible to access the full EGA color space in 200-line modes?
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When was Breakout developed by Steve Wozniak?
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VT52 emulation for MS-DOS?
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Anyone know the specific differences between a Northgate Omnikey 101 and 102?
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How does ‘Trent’s circuit board strategy’ work?
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Floppy drive detection on an IBM PC 5150 by PC/MS-DOS
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Original purpose of the Rich Header in PE files
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What's the convention for < > low/high-byte in 8-bit assembler?
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Can the Nintendo 64 run code directly from ROM?
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How was the Traf-O-Data 8008 simulator developed?
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How to connect an HX-20 to a monitor via the RS232 port?
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Was there a hard disk format countdown easter egg hidden in the Windows 95 installer?
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Amiga game about a detective or a spy in some kind of hotel building
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Why do sprites lag behind a scrolling map in first-generation Pokémon games?
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"Quit all programs, and then restart your computer" in the Windows 95 "Illegal operation" dialog
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Did the IBM ServiceFree really reach 80 MIPS in 1975?
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8080/8085 Instruction Test Suite
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What could SID do that APU could not?
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How did the Fairchild Channel F provide a 2K frame buffer?
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What is the earliest computer technology to be referred to as "Artificial Intelligence"?
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When first CMOS versions of Z80 became available and were they ever used in (non-portable) home computers?
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Did the IBM 1401 have much better code density than the 360?
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How did Altair 8800 interrupts work?
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At what address do Apple II Applesoft programs get stored?
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Why were OS/360 PL/I procedure calls so expensive in terms of stack space?
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Classic Mac OS colors to modern RGB
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Is the substitution "ss" for "ß" on mainframes due to the SS being the largest customer of IBM punched cards outside the USA? [closed]
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Unknown Apple to VGA adapter
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N64 displays dark picture with barely recognisable contours
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How does 2M for DOS (2 MB formatted floppy disks) achieve what it does?
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Why does the Commodore 64 have 4K of non-banked RAM at $C000?
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What is the most accurate way to map 6-bit VGA palette to 8-bit?
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What kind of 256 color palette did the Enterprise 64/128 have?
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Did the original Japanese Tamagotchi device really die *completely* (forever) if the digital pet died? [closed]
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What was the first programming system to place no limitations on the length of identifiers?
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Were cartridge slots cheaper at the back?
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