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What's this computer in the 1988 movie "Vampire's Kiss"?
Oct 10 at 9:16
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Was there a specific benefit to inverted (XOR) mouse cursors other than aesthetics?
Mar 30 at 16:26
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Why were floppy drives not any faster?
Jan 16 '18 at 14:20
55
Is it safe to turn on a 40-year old TRS-80?
Jan 17 '18 at 13:04
55
Why do C to Z80 compilers produce poor code?
Mar 28 '18 at 16:51
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Did computers come with circuit diagrams?
Nov 8 '20 at 13:50
37
What was the typical thickness of fanfold printer paper?
Nov 4 '18 at 18:18
34
How can I recover the contents from an Amiga HDD using modern Linux?
Jan 8 '18 at 14:33
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Does an ISA card have a fixed memory address?
Oct 23 '17 at 8:43
33
Why was segment register value scaled by such a small factor of 16 on i8086?
Jun 25 '16 at 21:51
31
Can the two CPUs in a Commodore 128 run at the same time?
Jul 30 '16 at 12:36
30
Did 5.25" floppies undergo a change in magnetic coating?
Mar 4 '19 at 20:56
30
Magnetic exposure to floppy disk damages file system and requires complete reformat?
Jan 15 '18 at 12:57
29
How did the ZX80 store both a useful program and screen memory?
Oct 15 '18 at 13:03
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Why the "jmp" instruction is not working?
Jun 7 '17 at 11:14
29
How was early randomness generated?
Feb 5 '17 at 12:08
28
What prevents faster versions of old architectures from being created?
Jun 24 '16 at 12:54
28
Proportional fonts on 8-bit computers
Sep 14 '18 at 12:31
27
Why are old CPUs like MOS Technology 6502 and Motorola 68000 considered better for real time systems applications than modern x86 based CPUs?
Oct 16 '20 at 19:53
25
Uses for the halt instruction?
Jun 16 '18 at 7:32
25
Blue and yellow stripes on the screen when loading from tape on ZX Spectrum
Jun 2 '17 at 20:41
25
How did the original Apple Macintosh and Atari ST use protected mode?
Apr 27 '17 at 8:12
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When IPv6 was designed were there any specific considerations for other planets?
Oct 22 '20 at 8:37
24
Why is the Amiga ROM at a high memory location, and RAM in low memory?
Jul 25 '16 at 22:47
24
What was the effect of the Video Game Crash of 1983 outside of North America?
Feb 7 '19 at 20:21
24
What was the first computer to support Arabic writing?
Mar 28 '17 at 10:10
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Did any notable product use Intel's first RAM?
Apr 29 at 6:51
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Did CP/M support custom hardware using device drivers?
Mar 14 '19 at 9:03
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Was there a special drive, that saved much more than 1.44MB on an HD floppy disk?
Jan 14 '18 at 12:22
20
Does 10BASE-T need more sophisticated electronics than 10BASE5/10BASE2?
Nov 20 at 16:31
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