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A perfectionist UX geek (Not just UI geek. Who cares how well a UI is designed if it's got horrible latency or you can't trust it to preserve your data?) with an interest in using heuristics and statistics to reduce the number of fields the user needs to fill out.

I also upload shareware and freeware I find on my old floppies and CD-Rs to the Internet Archive.

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Why did old IBM-PC-compatible computers only have 16 colors available?
Jun 6, 2021
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Why did they create PC games relying on a fixed CPU frequency instead of a clock function?
May 5
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Did computers come with circuit diagrams?
Nov 8, 2020
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How did early x86 BIOS programmers manage to program full blown TUIs given very few bytes of ROM/EPROM?
May 26, 2019
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Were there any enhancement chips that vastly outperformed the main CPU?
Apr 3, 2022
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Is there a standard interface for connecting debuggers to emulators?
Aug 12, 2021
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At what point did computing go from mainly performance- and functionality-oriented to security-oriented? Why?
Sep 25, 2022
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In x86 real mode, how does BIOS know what hardware is present?
Oct 22, 2021
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What was this mini-computer tape troubleshooting process
Jul 19, 2022
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How did Joysticks with more than 4 buttons and all those extra features work on a Game Port?
Aug 3, 2022
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“Origin null is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Origin” error for request made by application running from a file:// URL
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Creating a simple XML file using python
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How do you reset a USB device from the command line?
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Stop link from sending referrer to destination
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ImageMagick security policy 'PDF' blocking conversion

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