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What should we do with manuals from the 80s?
Awarded Aug 15 at 17:15
Why did IBM make the PC BIOS source code public?
Awarded Aug 14 at 4:05
Where can I find the Applesoft line-drawing algorithm?
Awarded Aug 13 at 21:05
First use of “destructuring” in computing?
Awarded Aug 12 at 16:50
What was the first multiprocessor x86 motherboard?
Awarded Aug 8 at 12:00
What was the first multiprocessor x86 motherboard?
Awarded Aug 7 at 23:40
90s game about a man with a revolver fighting demons
Awarded Aug 7 at 14:30
What was the role of Commodore-West Germany?
Awarded Aug 6 at 22:55
Reference material for building a DIY Stack Computer from Logic Gates
Awarded Aug 6 at 16:40
3 beeps on a 486 computer with an American Megatrends bios?
Awarded Aug 5 at 20:30
Pair Am386 with i387
Awarded Jul 31 at 18:25
How did restarts resolve parity errors triggered by broken core-rope wires?
Awarded Jul 31 at 15:50
How did the SysRq key get onto modern keyboards if it's rarely used?
Awarded Jul 28 at 18:00
Low-cost sound chip
Awarded Jul 28 at 15:20
Low-cost sound chip
Awarded Jul 28 at 12:50
Low-cost sound chip
Awarded Jul 28 at 2:05
Does the Intel 8086 CPU have user mode and kernel mode?
Awarded Jul 26 at 19:15
What was the rationale behind 36 bit computer architectures?
Awarded Jul 26 at 16:20
Why did the Bell 103 modem use a data rate of 300 bps?
Awarded Jul 24 at 5:20
What was the rationale behind 36 bit computer architectures?
Awarded Jul 24 at 4:25
Would a C compiler for the Apollo Guidance Computer be plausible?
Awarded Jul 23 at 8:35
Does switching on an old games console without a cartridge damage it?
Awarded Jul 22 at 15:55
Does switching on an old games console without a cartridge damage it?
Awarded Jul 22 at 12:55
What does a Nintendo Game Boy do when turned on without a game cartridge inserted?
Awarded Jul 21 at 23:30
What does a Nintendo Game Boy do when turned on without a game cartridge inserted?
Awarded Jul 21 at 12:10
Windows 98 with 2GB of RAM
Awarded Jul 19 at 18:45
Locked-up DOS computer beeped on keypress. What mechanism caused that?
Awarded Jul 19 at 9:10
What was the difference between a Games Console and a Home Computer?
Awarded Jul 19 at 6:35
Intel 8080-based home computers
Awarded Jul 18 at 17:10
Why is the Intel 8086 CPU called a 16-bit CPU?
Awarded Jul 18 at 14:50
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Awarded Jul 18 at 10:30
What made Windows ME so crash-prone?
Awarded Jul 15 at 6:30
Why weren't bootable game disks ever common on the IBM PC?
Awarded Jul 12 at 3:35
Why weren't bootable game disks ever common on the IBM PC?
Awarded Jul 11 at 18:35
The IBM RAM with non-standard pin layout
Awarded Jul 9 at 14:45
How do I use my adapted PS2 keyboard & mouse on a windows 10 computer?
Awarded Jul 6 at 11:25
Looking for ATARI-ST Graphics Image
Awarded Jul 4 at 6:25
Why has Novell never written its own boot loader?
Awarded Jul 3 at 19:20
Why did Super-VGA offer the 5:4 1280*1024 resolution?
Awarded Jul 3 at 10:35
Why did moving the mouse cursor cause Windows 95 to run more quickly?
Awarded Jul 3 at 3:20
Looking for ATARI-ST Graphics Image
Awarded Jul 1 at 12:20
Why did moving the mouse cursor cause Windows 95 to run more quickly?
Awarded Jul 1 at 10:10
Why did the Apple IIe make a hideous noise if you inserted the disk upside down?
Awarded Jun 27 at 17:40
Did this game and computer system from Magnum PI exist?
Awarded Jun 27 at 17:00
Why wasn't ASCII designed with a contiguous alphanumeric character order?
Awarded Jun 27 at 15:20
Why did the Apple IIe make a hideous noise if you inserted the disk upside down?
Awarded Jun 26 at 22:55
Why wasn't EBCDIC designed with contiguous alphanumeric characters?
Awarded Jun 26 at 18:10
How did Satoru Iwata compress Pokemon GS to fit two regions on a single cartridge?
Awarded Jun 26 at 12:00
Why wasn't ASCII designed with a contiguous alphanumeric character order?
Awarded Jun 26 at 11:55
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Awarded Jun 20 at 16:30
Anyone have more information on the “Hammerstein TV Games” 1st gen console?
Awarded Jun 19 at 14:45
What did the 8086 (and 8088) do upon encountering an illegal instruction?
Awarded Jun 12 at 16:10
Why does this Apple //e drops into system monitor when booting?
Awarded Jun 12 at 8:10
Why are my VGA vram to vram copies so slow?
Awarded Jun 11 at 20:35
How to teach the Z80 to count milliseconds and microseconds like Arduino?
Awarded Jun 11 at 14:05
Was self-modifying code possible using BASIC?
Awarded Jun 11 at 9:20
Historical speed of linear programming solvers
Awarded Jun 10 at 17:45
Why did Intel abandon unified CPU cache?
Awarded Jun 10 at 12:10
SGI Octane and Octane 2 fail to boot
Awarded Jun 9 at 11:45
Was self-modifying code possible using BASIC?
Awarded Jun 8 at 23:10
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