User Ken Gober

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Why are punch card readers no longer in use?

answered Feb 5, 2018 at 15:47

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What did the 8086 (and 8088) do upon encountering an illegal instruction?

answered Jun 10, 2019 at 17:49

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How was the blinking terminal cursor invented?

answered May 15, 2019 at 17:57

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Why does the original Donkey Kong update the screen in a curtain closing pattern?

answered Nov 5, 2018 at 16:36

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How can I overclock my Commodore 64?

answered Apr 20, 2016 at 20:21

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Why were early versions of BASIC different?

answered May 12, 2016 at 15:48

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When you type on a computer terminal, how are the characters displayed on the screen?

answered May 15, 2017 at 19:29

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How to use BASIC after "LOAD "$",8 on the C64

answered Aug 30, 2017 at 14:10

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Could you use uppercase or special characters in a password in early Unix?

answered Oct 10, 2019 at 17:38

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Were the dungeons in Legend of Zelda designed to fit together?

answered May 3, 2018 at 17:24

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Why has Novell never written its own boot loader?

answered Jul 2, 2019 at 23:04

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Why is the serial port driver named "/dev/ttyS#"?

answered Jun 4, 2017 at 17:39

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Why not use fractions instead of floating point?

answered Oct 1, 2018 at 14:35

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Is it possible to procedurally determine the number of cycles a particular instruction takes on a 6502?

answered Dec 21, 2016 at 6:17

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What is the instruction set of the PDP-7?

answered Oct 29, 2016 at 23:15

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Which pointing devices were used by early laptop computers?

answered Oct 9, 2017 at 21:21

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What determines which architecture an a.out executable runs on?

answered Apr 24, 2018 at 14:57

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Does an ISA card have a fixed memory address?

answered Oct 23, 2017 at 2:18

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Using only one terminal, can I interrupt a process that's hung on very early Unix versions?

answered Dec 16, 2019 at 20:26

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Which Linux or BSD distributions do still support i386, i486 or i586 CPUs?

answered Dec 1, 2016 at 21:35

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Reason for the Amiga clock speed

answered Jan 24, 2017 at 20:25

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What register size did early computers use?

answered Oct 28, 2016 at 16:46

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Why did base64 win against uuencode?

answered Jun 2, 2017 at 13:52

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C64, basic v2, DATA strange behavior

answered Sep 17, 2017 at 14:38

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Unix utility "smiley" to decode emoticons: Where to get it?

answered Aug 12, 2019 at 19:22

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When TCP was first invented, was the initial sequence number required to be random?

answered Dec 30, 2018 at 3:53

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DECNet physical connector

answered Jan 28, 2017 at 20:30

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Were people building CPUs out of TTL logic prior to the 4004, 8080 and the 6800?

answered Jan 4, 2017 at 3:52

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Is the terminal number fixed?

answered Apr 20, 2017 at 13:30

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Is there anything special about /dev/console?

answered Apr 26, 2017 at 13:15

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Why are punch card readers no longer in use?

What did the 8086 (and 8088) do upon encountering an illegal instruction?

How was the blinking terminal cursor invented?

Why does the original Donkey Kong update the screen in a curtain closing pattern?

How can I overclock my Commodore 64?

Why were early versions of BASIC different?

When you type on a computer terminal, how are the characters displayed on the screen?

How to use BASIC after "LOAD "$",8 on the C64

Could you use uppercase or special characters in a password in early Unix?

Were the dungeons in Legend of Zelda designed to fit together?

Why has Novell never written its own boot loader?

Why is the serial port driver named "/dev/ttyS#"?

Why not use fractions instead of floating point?

Is it possible to procedurally determine the number of cycles a particular instruction takes on a 6502?

What is the instruction set of the PDP-7?

Which pointing devices were used by early laptop computers?

What determines which architecture an a.out executable runs on?

Does an ISA card have a fixed memory address?

Using only one terminal, can I interrupt a process that's hung on very early Unix versions?

Which Linux or BSD distributions do still support i386, i486 or i586 CPUs?

Reason for the Amiga clock speed

What register size did early computers use?

Why did base64 win against uuencode?

C64, basic v2, DATA strange behavior

Unix utility "smiley" to decode emoticons: Where to get it?

When TCP was first invented, was the initial sequence number required to be random?

DECNet physical connector

Were people building CPUs out of TTL logic prior to the 4004, 8080 and the 6800?

Is the terminal number fixed?

Is there anything special about /dev/console?