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Why wasn't ASCII designed with a contiguous alphanumeric character order?

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Why was video, audio and picture compression the poorest when storage space was the costliest?

50 votes

Why doesn’t my VGA-to-HDMI converter work with my 286 PC?

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Why was computer memory so expensive and scarce?

44 votes

Why have consumer-level graphing calculators seemingly not developed in 20+ years?

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Why is the processor instruction called "move", not "copy"?

37 votes

Are there vintage or historical bitmapped fonts available for non-commercial use?

36 votes

Why do Game Boy Colors not want nickel-cadmium batteries?

34 votes

Why did they create PC games relying on a fixed CPU frequency instead of a clock function?

33 votes

Document format for a DOS word processor where control commands begin with a dot

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Why is the Intel 8086 CPU called a 16-bit CPU?

32 votes

Why did trackballs disappear?

30 votes

Was it possible to send data over the phone-line without a modem?

30 votes

when did command line applications start using "-h" as a "standard" way to print "help"?

26 votes

How did early laser printers get by with so little memory?

26 votes

When was the term ‘directory’ replaced by ‘folder’?

26 votes

Why weren't audio decoders used to create a makeshift internet in the 70 and 80s?

24 votes

Were later MS-DOS versions still implemented in x86 assembly?

24 votes

History of Ctrl-S and Ctrl-Q for flow control

22 votes

Why weren't bootable game disks ever common on the IBM PC?

22 votes

What were the most popular text editors for MS-DOS in the 1980s?

21 votes

What is a Dumb Terminal?

19 votes

Was there a technical advantage to such tall PC tower cases?

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How did the Commodore 64 show a picture while reading cassette?

19 votes

In this movie I see a strange cable for terminal connection, what kind of connection is this?

18 votes

Why user-assembled kits?

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Single level file directory

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Did Pascal programmers really move on to Java in the 90s?

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What's the origin of terminating strings by setting the high bit of the last character?

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Why were teletype printers not used for DOS computers?