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25 Questions

What made Windows Me so crash-prone?

What makes accurate emulation of old systems a difficult task?

Did personal computers ever support 8" floppies?

Did Windows NT 4 emulate x86 on non-Intel platforms?

Why do PCs boot in 720x400 resolution?

What does Windows' “Tuning up Application Start” do?

Why does the single dot entry exist in file systems?

When and what was the first 3D acceleration device ever released?

Was OS/2 a viable alternative for daily DOS and Windows tasks?

What were practical uses of SCSI floppy drives?

History of the demise of Matrox from the world of 3D graphics cards

What is the most rudimentary input method a platform has ever been programmed in?

How did malware spreading through PIF files work?

Was the ancestor of SCSI, the SASI protocol, nothing more than a draft?

Drilling 720Kb floppies to 'upgrade' them to 1440Kb?

What were other colors beside green and amber for monochrome monitors?

What exactly were those 808X computers that would switch to 80386 upon Ctrl-Alt-Del?

What determined the type of error dialog being shown in Windows 3.1?

What was the purpose of exotic modes and sectors for CD-ROM?

Was imported software for computers as common as it was for consoles?

Where is the literature for Windows 3.1 Batch mode setup?

Is emulation ultimately the future of retro computing? [closed]

What we commonly call PCs are in fact ATs, correct?

How popular was the Canon X-07?

Why the 50/60Hz speed rule didn't apply for arcades but did for consoles?