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

answered Jun 26, 2019 at 1:48

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

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answered Sep 6, 2021 at 1:58

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Why was computer memory so expensive and scarce?

history hardware memory hard-disk price

answered Jan 9 at 20:19

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

hardware nintendo power game-boy battery

answered Jan 9 at 0:08

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

licensing font

answered Jan 1, 2019 at 5:08

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

assembly instruction-set cpu terminology

answered Dec 6, 2019 at 4:35

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

8086

answered Jul 18, 2019 at 2:50

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Why did trackballs disappear?

history hardware touchpad input-devices laptop

answered Jan 18, 2019 at 5:12

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

hardware

answered Feb 15, 2019 at 5:39

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

internet

answered Jan 3, 2020 at 18:29

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

memory printer

answered Apr 12, 2021 at 21:17

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

history assembly operating-system

answered Oct 7, 2018 at 14:56

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

history terminal ascii

answered Aug 13, 2018 at 5:14

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

ms-dos ibm-pc gaming boot

answered Jul 8, 2019 at 14:20

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What is a Dumb Terminal?

terminal terminology

answered Jan 11 at 2:00

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

case

answered Oct 13, 2021 at 14:32

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

commodore-64 cassette-tape

answered Nov 14, 2021 at 18:59

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Why user-assembled kits?

history hardware altair-8800

answered Nov 20, 2020 at 15:12

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Single level file directory

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answered Jun 25, 2019 at 18:26

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

history ibm-pc text

answered Jul 22, 2021 at 2:55

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Why were teletype printers not used for DOS computers?

history ms-dos printer

answered Feb 7, 2018 at 2:59

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WordStar's "column mode"

wordstar

answered Jan 30, 2019 at 15:09

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What was the earliest system to explicitly support threading based on shared memory?

history operating-system multitasking

answered Feb 11, 2021 at 18:52

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What happens when a terminal (like a VT100) is connected to a computer?

unix terminal vt100

answered Jan 22, 2019 at 23:47

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Why didn't PostScript eliminate the need for printer drivers?

history printer driver windows

answered Jan 21, 2019 at 5:08

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Last computer not to use octets / 8-bit bytes

memory

answered Oct 11, 2018 at 14:37

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How to use USB flash drives with Windows 98 SE?

windows-98 usb compaq

answered Oct 17, 2018 at 13:45

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How were files transferred between different systems in the late 1980s?

history data-transfer old-hardware-adaptation

answered May 27, 2018 at 14:20

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What were the real competitors to the early IBM PC?

ibm-pc

answered Jul 11, 2018 at 4:41

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Why was the shrinking from 8″ made only to 5.25″ and not smaller (4″ or less)?

history floppy-disk

answered Apr 2, 2019 at 14:13

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

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

Why was computer memory so expensive and scarce?

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

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

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

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

Why did trackballs disappear?

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

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

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

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

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

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

What is a Dumb Terminal?

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

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

Why user-assembled kits?

Single level file directory

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

Why were teletype printers not used for DOS computers?

WordStar's "column mode"

What was the earliest system to explicitly support threading based on shared memory?

What happens when a terminal (like a VT100) is connected to a computer?

Why didn't PostScript eliminate the need for printer drivers?

Last computer not to use octets / 8-bit bytes

How to use USB flash drives with Windows 98 SE?

How were files transferred between different systems in the late 1980s?

What were the real competitors to the early IBM PC?

Why was the shrinking from 8″ made only to 5.25″ and not smaller (4″ or less)?