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79 Questions

Why was RS-232 12V?

BBC/Acorn BASIC, what made it so fast?

How good was Woz's FP code?

MOS 8502, just a 6510B?

Why are branches relative in many 8-bit CPUs?

Was 1991's Hellcats the first instance of incremental screen updates?

ZSPL language, anyone heard of it?

TMS9900 registers in RAM performance

Did any micros use the 6502 BCD mode in their OS?

GOTO (etc) to a non-existent line?

Origins of the “array like” strings in BASIC

New 6502 BASICs?

Why did the Ataris have such clear displays?

Odd tokenizing in Integer BASIC

Was the MC6800 a PDP-11 or PDP-8?

Unix on the H11?

Sources for some old BASIC games

Radio Shack computer trainer kit?

Cassette tape storage formats

PET space arcade game with surprisingly good graphics

Who wrote the MS BASIC on the PET/C64/etc?

PET as a terminal

TI-99 display interference

String libraries for BASIC

SYNC and the 65CE02 instruction timing

PET game, enemies attempt to break through several concentric sets of walls

When did the 65C02 become available?

Is a normal B&W TV good enough for 80-column text?

BASIC on the Nova?

MS BASIC, access a DIMed variable with no index?