Retrocomputing

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How were Western computer chips reverse-engineered in USSR?
Awarded Nov 24 at 16:12
How do I run PowerPC Applications on an Intel Mac
Awarded Nov 14 at 18:26
Why have consumer-level graphing calculators seemingly not developed in 20+ years?
Awarded Nov 8 at 5:19
Who invented file extensions in file names?
Awarded Nov 2 at 15:50
Why did ones' complement decline in popularity?
Awarded Oct 23 at 1:43
How long will SFC/SNES consoles and cartridges last?
Awarded Oct 14 at 14:11
Why did the Motorola 68000 processor family fall out of use in personal computers in the 21st century?
Awarded Oct 6 at 21:42
How were the signs for logical and arithmetic operators decided?
Awarded Sep 29 at 3:56
How do I use my adapted PS/2 keyboard & mouse on a Windows 10 computer?
Awarded Sep 24 at 22:40
Why were early personal computer monitors not green?
Awarded Sep 18 at 16:51
Was it possible to listen to music and work on old PCs? When was it possible to for the first time?
Awarded Sep 12 at 0:58
Why were floppy disks invented after hard disks?
Awarded Aug 10 at 4:55
Uses for the halt instruction?
Awarded Jul 30 at 14:07
Where to buy a 6502 chip
Awarded Jul 6 at 22:04
How could early UNIX OS comprise so few lines of code?
Awarded Jul 4 at 20:11
How did early computers handle mice?
Awarded Jun 15 at 16:19
Has there ever been a C compiler where using ++i was faster than i++?
Awarded Jun 14 at 21:06
Why was the Sega Genesis marketed as a 16-bit console?
Awarded Jun 4 at 9:57
Why was desktop CPU frequency so low in the late 1990s?
Awarded Apr 26 at 7:55
What are the software logos in MORICONS.DLL?
Awarded Apr 13 at 12:55
What is a subpixel in Super Mario Bros, and how does it relate to wall clipping?
Awarded Apr 13 at 7:32
How do I create a boot menu to select between Windows and DOS?
Awarded Apr 6 at 13:17
How much data could a home computer store on an audio cassette?
Awarded Apr 4 at 18:23
How does the Gameboy's memory bank switching work?
Awarded Mar 17 at 11:20
Cannot boot from a Compact Flash card
Awarded Mar 15 at 15:10
Were there 8086 coprocessors other than the 8087?
Awarded Mar 14 at 19:50
Intel CPU bug in the 90s
Awarded Mar 14 at 15:55
Was there a technical advantage to such tall PC tower cases?
Awarded Feb 6 at 21:40
When was the term ‘directory’ replaced by ‘folder’?
Awarded Jan 19 at 23:30
What were other colors beside green and amber for monochrome monitors?
Awarded Jan 1 at 2:41
What caused older computer fans to be so much louder than they are today?
Awarded Dec 29, 2022 at 19:50
Why was USB 1.0 incredibly slow even for its time?
Awarded Dec 14, 2022 at 4:56
Why does the Commodore C128 perform poorly when running CP/M?
Awarded Dec 9, 2022 at 23:33
Wanted: 5.25" floppy to USB adapter
Awarded Nov 29, 2022 at 22:40
Could we have avoided the whole UTF-16 fiasco? [closed]
Awarded Nov 26, 2022 at 6:50
How did people get apps on their computer before the Internet?
Awarded Oct 5, 2022 at 19:57
Why does the 6502 have the BIT instruction?
Awarded Oct 3, 2022 at 10:34
Accessing a USB drive from DOS
Awarded Sep 27, 2022 at 18:27
Did any computer use a 7-bit byte?
Awarded Sep 10, 2022 at 19:30
Why was preemptive multitasking so slow in coming to consumer OS's?
Awarded Aug 24, 2022 at 15:26
What is the maximum 64 bit integer (number) value? [closed]
Awarded Aug 7, 2022 at 18:16
How to renew and re-ink old printer ribbons?
Awarded Jul 6, 2022 at 18:41
What was the first operating system to be called an "operating system"?
Awarded Jun 30, 2022 at 18:15
Is it true that Netscape Navigator eventually became Mozilla Firefox?
Awarded Jun 21, 2022 at 0:16
What's the story behind the name "X11"?
Awarded May 23, 2022 at 11:36
What was the first Object Oriented programming language?
Awarded Apr 7, 2022 at 8:09
How did early x86 BIOS programmers manage to program full blown TUIs given very few bytes of ROM/EPROM?
Awarded Mar 31, 2022 at 15:46
Was there a retro computer susceptible of being damaged only by issuing instructions at it?
Awarded Mar 17, 2022 at 15:47
What is the oldest digital processor still performing non-educational duties in its original environment?
Awarded Mar 17, 2022 at 0:57
Why does the original Donkey Kong update the screen in a curtain closing pattern?
Awarded Mar 13, 2022 at 23:45
How was the clock frequency of the PS/2 keyboard protocol chosen?
Awarded Mar 9, 2022 at 19:31
What is the oldest computer capable of running a modern version of GNU/Linux?
Awarded Mar 8, 2022 at 12:09
Why didn't the 8086 use linear addressing?
Awarded Feb 27, 2022 at 3:36
Is there a simple way to display ANSI art and animation files in a modern terminal window?
Awarded Feb 16, 2022 at 22:04
Why do Game Boy Colors not want nickel-cadmium batteries?
Awarded Jan 11, 2022 at 15:11
History of Ctrl-S and Ctrl-Q for flow control
Awarded Dec 27, 2021 at 16:27
Why did the MS-DOS API choose software interrupts for its interface?
Awarded Nov 30, 2021 at 17:41
Why did the NES not allow rotated sprites?
Awarded Nov 19, 2021 at 11:57
How should we interpret Dave Cutler's criticism of Unix?
Awarded Nov 16, 2021 at 14:03
What is the origin of this bizarre advert of people wearing swimsuits in a room with computer hardware?
Awarded Nov 11, 2021 at 18:55
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