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What form factor did the first-gen "compact Mac" HDDs use?
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Spider and snake in a square
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Commodore / Apple II GEOS Document Cross-Platform Compatibility
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How to address MEGA65 memory above 64 KB in VBCC?
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Were warning messages at the beginning of 90's - 00's Capcom and Konami games mandated by anybody?
Awarded Oct 17 at 20:41
Tandy Color Computer 2 fantasy game with a Burma Shave jingle knockoff on the game-over screen
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Why is ASCII punctuation in that order?
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Old pc car game, mission select inside old camper
Awarded Sep 14 at 1:18
In search of 86-DOS ttsr.h and corresponding library
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Looking for very old, very bad rand()
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Apple IIgs program SHGR problem
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Which linker or object-file format imposed the 6-character restriction on external names?
Awarded Jul 23 at 11:03
What problems did Knuth have because TeX and WEB were Pascal instead of C?
Awarded Jul 22 at 16:27
How is `SELECT` for MS-DOS 3.30 supposed to be used on 360KB floppy systems?
Awarded Jul 17 at 22:46
How did the SysRq key get onto modern keyboards if it's rarely used?
Awarded Jul 14 at 12:20
What was the first computer-based video editing software ever developed?
Awarded Jun 25 at 10:40
Sequential Analog Computers?
Awarded Jun 22 at 9:58
Why is the Unix command "touch" called touch? How is it related to new/create or update?
Awarded Jun 16 at 2:36
IBM DASD CKD records per track planning documentation
Awarded Jun 15 at 0:42
Can Microsoft Windows 1.0 run on CPUs older than Intel 8086 with some software patches and hardware modifications? [closed]
Awarded Jun 7 at 16:12
Z80N multiply compared to MC68000 [closed]
Awarded Jun 3 at 11:00
How to Extract Image Resource in Compilation?
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Why did the AT Attachment HDD interface limit itself to 16 heads?
Awarded May 27 at 15:01
Why is the PICTURE clause called the PICTURE clause in COBOL?
Awarded May 16 at 13:27
Bank-switching a CoCo 2 to "All RAM" and back?
Awarded May 15 at 1:40
What types of constants are accepted as vector sizes in the B language?
Awarded May 3 at 13:19
Maximum number of sprites per scan-line on Ghosts'n Goblins Arcade Hardware?
Awarded May 2 at 11:16
(In)significance of spaces in parsing Fortran IV
Awarded Apr 26 at 16:42
What is the line separator (end of line) character of textfiles of the VMS operating system?
Awarded Apr 19 at 11:07
How does PCIe know which card to use for legacy ISA I/O ports?
Awarded Apr 5 at 14:37
How plausible is this anecdote about "toggling in" an operating system?
Awarded Apr 4 at 18:19
Was there ever any real-world usage of the Intel iAPX 432?
Awarded Apr 1 at 22:13
to find out a driver and identify model of the old printer
Awarded Mar 27 at 11:50
What is the purpose of DPMI interrupt 31h function 300h?
Awarded Mar 18 at 15:05
Building an 8080 based computer
Awarded Mar 13 at 6:25
Why did ancient Unix perform BSS segment initialization?
Awarded Mar 12 at 10:22
In The Fractalist, how did high school students connect to IBM computers?
Awarded Mar 9 at 20:19
Origin of "foo", "bar", and "baz"
Awarded Mar 1 at 21:49
Did missing/corrupt dates in COBOL default to 1875-05-20?
Awarded Feb 15 at 21:06
Which 8086 or 8088-based computer, probably made by Zenith, offered EMS support on the motherboard?
Awarded Feb 15 at 1:50
Isometric game for the ZX Spectrum, featuring a protagonist with magical powers and a decaying body, held in a castle
Awarded Feb 14 at 12:37
Why did programmers keep using EMS when XMS became commonly available?
Awarded Feb 12 at 2:52
How did OCR work in the 60s?
Awarded Feb 6 at 14:42
VIC-II Border Flip Flop Comparison Values
Awarded Feb 6 at 9:07
What is the function of Vintage Apple Audio cable 590-0618-A
Awarded Jan 29 at 22:20
Did CRT TVs adjust raster height in response to the non-standard signal?
Awarded Jan 27 at 13:21
IBM Model M2 stuck on Scroll and Caps Lock, no keys reacting
Awarded Jan 17 at 17:26
Reduced Circuit C64 Clock Generator newer motherboard Y1 frequency question
Awarded Jan 16 at 20:49
KOH - Early Full Disk Encryption
Awarded Jan 10 at 21:42
How to build the game Raptor v1.2 from the original source code release?
Awarded Jan 1 at 23:39
Triple-booting Windows NT 4.x/5.x, Windows 9x, and MS-DOS using NTLDR
Awarded Dec 24, 2024 at 8:29
Identifying IBM PC SIMM RAM size
Awarded Dec 17, 2024 at 18:45
How does the early first version of M68K emulator work?
Awarded Dec 10, 2024 at 5:13
How to set/force EXE stack size with 1988 Turbo C 2.0 for a reverse engineering project
Awarded Dec 8, 2024 at 15:42
Why does the ZX Spectrum ROM set I register, then wait 24 T-states?
Awarded Nov 26, 2024 at 12:15
Was it really possible to damage my VGA card by programming it in assembly through its latches registers?
Awarded Nov 25, 2024 at 3:39
Identifying and finding a charger and disk for the Acer Anyware K386s?
Awarded Nov 18, 2024 at 19:34
How to insert custom code into Super Mario Bros. NES file
Awarded Nov 18, 2024 at 8:05
Do I need an extra driver to use PS/2 port computer mouse? [closed]
Awarded Nov 16, 2024 at 13:07
Is there a mistake in the code sample in “Programming the Z80” performing 16-bit by 8-bit division?
Awarded Nov 15, 2024 at 23:08
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