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Why did IBM make the PC BIOS source code public?

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How slow was the 6502 BASIC compared to Assembly

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Was 10BASE5 a mistake?

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When did 5.25″ floppies exceed the capacity of 8″?

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What was the release date of the MOS 8502?

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How did the IBM 5153 color display detect and modify the signal to make low-intensity yellow into "brown"?

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What is DRAM refresh and why is the weird Apple II video memory layout affected by it?

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When did the PC bus start slowing access to video RAM?

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Was there a clearly identifiable "first computer" to use or demonstrate the use of virtual memory?

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When low-level formatting a floppy, how does one ensure any existing sector markers are overwritten?

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Late 1970s and 6502 chip facilities for operating systems

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Why was the 6502 version of Microsoft BASIC coded like the 8080 and 6800 versions even though this was rather inefficient?

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What's the timeline of Motorola 6800-family CPUs from 1974 to 1979?

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For how long can you safely stop the clock on an NMOS 6502?

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What causes the traces to wrinkle like this and should I be worried

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What was the first Lisp implementation that could generate machine code?

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What was the rationale behind 36 bit computer architectures?

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What do the '80/40' and 'keyboard' buttons on my Apple IIc do?

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How were the 70s and 80s coin-op machines programmed?

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NES chips usage

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Intel 8080-based home computers

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Why did the Apple IIe use a 2 MHz-rated 6502, even though it ran at only 1 MHz?

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How was a line of Commodore 64 BASIC code stored in its memory?

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Where did the free parameters of IEEE 754 come from?

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On a Gameboy, what happens when attempting to read/write external RAM while RAM is disabled?

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Did this analogue computer from 1960 really have Internet?

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Could we have avoided the whole UTF-16 fiasco?

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Why did IBM make the PC BIOS source code public?

How slow was the 6502 BASIC compared to Assembly

What's the relationship betweeen MS-DOS and XENIX?

Was 10BASE5 a mistake?

Why did post-8008 CPUs not keep the on-chip stack idea?

When did 5.25″ floppies exceed the capacity of 8″?

What was the release date of the MOS 8502?

How did the IBM 5153 color display detect and modify the signal to make low-intensity yellow into "brown"?

What is DRAM refresh and why is the weird Apple II video memory layout affected by it?

When did the PC bus start slowing access to video RAM?

Was there a clearly identifiable "first computer" to use or demonstrate the use of virtual memory?

When low-level formatting a floppy, how does one ensure any existing sector markers are overwritten?

Late 1970s and 6502 chip facilities for operating systems

Why was the 6502 version of Microsoft BASIC coded like the 8080 and 6800 versions even though this was rather inefficient?

What's the timeline of Motorola 6800-family CPUs from 1974 to 1979?

For how long can you safely stop the clock on an NMOS 6502?

What causes the traces to wrinkle like this and should I be worried

What was the first Lisp implementation that could generate machine code?

What was the rationale behind 36 bit computer architectures?

What do the '80/40' and 'keyboard' buttons on my Apple IIc do?

How were the 70s and 80s coin-op machines programmed?

NES chips usage

Intel 8080-based home computers

Why did the Apple IIe use a 2 MHz-rated 6502, even though it ran at only 1 MHz?

How was a line of Commodore 64 BASIC code stored in its memory?

Where did the free parameters of IEEE 754 come from?

On a Gameboy, what happens when attempting to read/write external RAM while RAM is disabled?

cprintf printing invisible characters in C program on VIC 20

Did this analogue computer from 1960 really have Internet?

Could we have avoided the whole UTF-16 fiasco?