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Why were floppy drives not any faster?
Jan 16 '18 at 14:20
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Is it safe to turn on a 40-year old TRS-80?
Jan 17 '18 at 13:04
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Why do C to Z80 compilers produce poor code?
Mar 28 '18 at 16:51
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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
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Why was segment register value scaled by such a small factor of 16 on i8086?
Jun 25 '16 at 21:51
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Can the two CPUs in a Commodore 128 run at the same time?
Jul 30 '16 at 12:36
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Magnetic exposure to floppy disk damages file system and requires complete reformat?
Jan 15 '18 at 12:57
29
Did 5.25" floppies undergo a change in magnetic coating?
Mar 4 '19 at 20:56
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
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How was early randomness generated?
Feb 5 '17 at 12:08
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Why is the Amiga ROM at a high memory location, and RAM in low memory?
Jul 25 '16 at 22:47
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What prevents faster versions of old architectures from being created?
Jun 24 '16 at 12:54
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What was the effect of the Video Game Crash of 1983 outside of North America?
Feb 7 '19 at 20:21
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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 at 19:53
23
Blue and yellow stripes on the screen when loading from tape on ZX Spectrum
Jun 2 '17 at 20:41
23
How did the original Apple Macintosh and Atari ST use protected mode?
Apr 27 '17 at 8:12
23
What was the first computer to support Arabic writing?
Mar 28 '17 at 10:10
22
Did CP/M support custom hardware using device drivers?
Mar 14 '19 at 9:03
20
What are Holorydmachines?
Feb 20 '19 at 13:56
20
Proportional fonts on 8-bit computers
Sep 14 '18 at 12:31
20
Was there a special drive, that saved much more than 1.44MB on an HD floppy disk?
Jan 14 '18 at 12:22
20
What is the Kelly chip?
Oct 2 '16 at 10:19
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Last computer not to use octets / 8-bit bytes
Oct 11 '18 at 12:40
19
Cloning circuit boards for antique computers?
Apr 22 '17 at 6:50
18
Uses for the halt instruction?
Jun 16 '18 at 7:32
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Did any laptop computers have a built-in 5¼-inch floppy drive?
Apr 11 '19 at 8:10
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Has any major corporation ever successfully sued Microsoft for intellectual property theft?
Feb 1 '18 at 7:50
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