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Requests to identify a historical computer. Whole, self-contained machines only; use [identify-this-card] instead for extension cards.
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Which computer is used in this NCIS episode?
It's actually NCIS LA, Season 9, Episode 7. And I'm pretty sure it actually is a C64
This question on Movies&TV has some footage from the series and the computer definitely looks like a C64.
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What are the names of the computers, that were used in the CP/M advertisement?
The right one looks like a NEC APC or N5200.
The middle, as you rightly say, is an IBM PC.
The left one, isn't even a computer - looks like a DEC VT100 terminal to me.
So, the computers in the pict …
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What's this computer in the 1988 movie "Vampire's Kiss"?
That's a Minolta PCW1 Word processor of Minolta Camera Co. Ltd
The "computer part" is in fact a PC with 512kBytes memory and a 80186 CPU running DOS 2.11 and proprietary word processing (or, rather: t …
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What monitor could render APL2 characters in 1985?
1985, it could have easily been any IBM PC equipped with a Hercules Monochrome Graphics card. More likely, however (as you said this was on IBM premises), the machines capable of displaying the full A …
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Did any CPUs have a special instruction for multiplying or dividing by ten?
Yes. But not as you think.
The Z80 has the RLD and RRD instructions which rotate a packed BCD in memory by 4 bits left or right, that effectively results in a multiplication or division by ten of that …