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Did type-in-programs or type-in-listings teach programming in the 70s and 80s or was it just tedious typing of the source code?
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Do the MOS 6510 and 8502 microprocessors use microcode?
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What was a "Windows protection error"?
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Denys Fisher, of Spirograph fame, using a computer late 1976, early 1977
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What is the relationship between Amiga audio and the MOD music file format?
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What was the distinctive rapid clicking sound in late 1990s desktops?
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Conditional skip instructions of the PDP-8
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How could/can there exist NTSC->PAL converters for SNES and other classic game consoles?
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Help identifying an arcade game from the late 1980s
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Did any games use the "Super Scaler" technique past Slip Stream?
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What are some notable historic keyboard designs with unusual colours? [closed]
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In what ways was the Windows NT POSIX implementation unsuited to real use?
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How did the IBM 360 detect memory errors?
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What's the fastest Apple II (sans accelerator card)?
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What's the name of this Apple monitor
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Why did the Apple III have more heating problems than the Altair?
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Amiga OS 3.1 vs 3.5 vs 3.9 system difference
Awarded Jul 9 at 9:26
How well can a NEO GEO theoretically run Sega´s Super Scallers Games?
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VGA controller for my W65C02 computer
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What is the 26-pin D-sub (DA-26) connector used for on the Media Vision Pro AudioSpectrum 16 Patch Panel?
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How much space did the 68000 registers take up?
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What did it cost the 8086 to support unaligned access?
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Is the W65C02S TTL-compatible?
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How could the Intel 4004 address 640 bytes if it was only 4-bit?
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Difference between machine language and machine code, maybe in the C64 community?
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Creating 8086 binary larger than 64 KiB using NASM or any other assembler
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Beep command with letters for notes (IBM AT + DOS circa 1984)
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What is the difference (if any) between these two expressions in FOCAL?
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In CP/M, how did a program know when to load a particular overlay?
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In Windows 3.11, did a unusual subnet mask actually work?
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Who coined the nickname "Trash-80" and what was the source of their animosity?
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Why has the Intel Itanium failed to take on the world? [closed]
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Difference between program and application [closed]
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ImageWriter II occasionally prints hex dumps
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What cables do I need to connect an Atari 130XE to a monitor and a television set?
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Do any FAT8 filesystem images survive?
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Samsung SyncMaster 3 cannot show resolutions up from 800x600 despite manual saying otherwise
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How did ZX Spectrum games loaders prevent the use of MERGE?
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What were the first chips with hardware support for SPI?
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Was it possible to win the "Lunar Lander" game with less fuel than the default?
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Can you manually load an Amiga library into memory?
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How do I stop flickering in mode 13h?
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Zip drive eject "tool"
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Serial Receipt Printer Garbage
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Why did the VT100 terminal have to be connected to a host computer if it already had a processor?
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What is the basic logic behind the setting or ordering of keys in a keyboard?
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How was the @ sign added to keyboards and character sets?
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What can be done with a USR file on the Commodore 1541 disk drive?
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Why did they switch from phone numbers to IP addresses? [closed]
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Why was it possible to play NTSC PlayStation games in black & white on a PAL console & TV?
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Trying to use IBM model F (5 pin DIN) with modern Windows PC
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Arduino Uno (ATMega328) vs Motorola 68000/68010 [closed]
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Windows 2000 Inaccessible Boot Device when running setup from SATA Hard Drive
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Does anybody remember a database cartridge for the Commodore 64?
Awarded Jun 9 at 20:32
What did the cassette bootloader in 8 Bit Ataris do?
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Has there ever been a C compiler where using ++i was faster than i++?
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Did anybody use PCBs as macro-scale mask-ROMS?
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Trying to understand some assembly syntax in the Unix v7 write system call
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What is the best way to set up multiple operating systems on a retro PC?
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Why do BK computers have unusual representations of $ and ^
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