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Why wasn't ASCII designed with a contiguous alphanumeric character order?
Jun 26 '19 at 1:48
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Why doesn’t my VGA-to-HDMI converter work with my 286 PC?
Sep 6 at 1:58
35
Are there vintage or historical bitmapped fonts available for non-commercial use?
Jan 1 '19 at 5:08
33
Why is the Intel 8086 CPU called a 16-bit CPU?
Jul 18 '19 at 2:50
32
Why did trackballs disappear?
Jan 18 '19 at 5:12
31
Why is the processor instruction called "move", not "copy"?
Dec 6 '19 at 4:35
30
Was it possible to send data over the phone-line without a modem?
Feb 15 '19 at 5:39
26
How did early laser printers get by with so little memory?
Apr 12 at 21:17
26
Why weren't audio decoders used to create a makeshift internet in the 70 and 80s?
Jan 3 '20 at 18:29
24
History of Ctrl-S and Ctrl-Q for flow control
Aug 13 '18 at 5:14
23
Were later MS-DOS versions still implemented in x86 assembly?
Oct 7 '18 at 14:56
21
Why weren't bootable game disks ever common on the IBM PC?
Jul 8 '19 at 14:20
19
Was there a technical advantage to such tall PC tower cases?
Oct 13 at 14:32
18
Why user-assembled kits?
Nov 20 '20 at 15:12
17
Single level file directory
Jun 25 '19 at 18:26
16
What's the origin of terminating strings by setting the high bit of the last character?
Jul 22 at 2:55
16
WordStar's "column mode"
Jan 30 '19 at 15:09
16
Why were teletype printers not used for DOS computers?
Feb 7 '18 at 2:59
14
What was the earliest system to explicitly support threading based on shared memory?
Feb 11 at 18:52
14
What happens when a terminal (like a VT100) is connected to a computer?
Jan 22 '19 at 23:47
13
Last computer not to use octets / 8-bit bytes
Oct 11 '18 at 14:37
12
Why didn't PostScript eliminate the need for printer drivers?
Jan 21 '19 at 5:08
12
How to use USB flash drives with Windows 98 SE?
Oct 17 '18 at 13:45
12
How were files transferred between different systems in the late 1980s?
May 27 '18 at 14:20
10
DOS serial printer formats
Jun 20 at 5:00
10
Why did decimal arithmetic slow down VisiCalc?
Nov 22 '20 at 17:22
10
Original Mac clock frequency
Dec 20 '19 at 3:27
10
Why was the shrinking from 8″ made only to 5.25″ and not smaller (4″ or less)?
Apr 2 '19 at 14:13
10
What were the real competitors to the early IBM PC?
Jul 11 '18 at 4:41
9
How did Capcom make the decision to produce 1942?
Jul 30 at 20:36
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