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What form factor did the first-gen "compact Mac" HDDs use?
Awarded 4 hours ago
How were large UNIX installs managed in the 80s/90s?
Awarded yesterday
New to Amiga, my machine wants some floppy, no workbench but kickstart in ROM
Awarded Nov 17 at 18:07
How did old programs handle signal safety when there weren't the POSIX realtime signal extension?
Awarded Nov 11 at 6:25
In the 8088, what was the time/cycles penalty for switching segments?
Awarded Nov 6 at 1:45
How did the Tandy 1000 select its drives?
Awarded Nov 3 at 5:26
Where does the Unix pack compressor come from?
Awarded Oct 31 at 23:36
Operating systems running programs in 286 16-bit protected mode
Awarded Oct 31 at 23:36
Has command.com ever been compressed?
Awarded Oct 31 at 23:36
Did any processor ISA have a "reversed accumulator" architecture?
Awarded Oct 30 at 18:42
What did the 32K RAM Memory Expansion Cartridge do for V-Tech PreComputers?
Awarded Oct 28 at 20:46
Why aren't each pixel's bits stored sequentially on the SNES?
Awarded Oct 23 at 13:34
Addressing on the Intel 1103
Awarded Oct 22 at 21:31
"VRAM" on the Adam?
Awarded Oct 8 at 11:57
How does the capacitive sensing works on the PC / PC/XT keyboard type 2?
Awarded Oct 6 at 7:33
Is this a Siemens T100S?
Awarded Oct 1 at 7:13
Why does the 6502 read from the stack before writing it?
Awarded Sep 30 at 15:18
What's the PC used in "American Kickboxer"?
Awarded Sep 21 at 14:14
Why it is that a 64-bit EXE file (PE64) can contain a custom MS-DOS stub (a MZ executable), but not a custom 32-bit Windows stub?
Awarded Sep 17 at 17:27
Why is ASCII punctuation in that order?
Awarded Sep 16 at 15:55
PC used in movie "Ghosthouse" (1988)
Awarded Sep 12 at 14:27
A joystick seen in the film “Ghosthouse” (1988)
Awarded Sep 12 at 0:32
Source code control on an MS-DOS system
Awarded Sep 8 at 6:13
In search of 86-DOS ttsr.h and corresponding library
Awarded Sep 3 at 15:32
Do array indices start at 0 or 1 in Dartmouth BASIC v4?
Awarded Sep 3 at 10:12
How much faster is the Z80H?
Awarded Sep 1 at 11:54
How did Amstrad CPC games calculate positions for every sprite?
Awarded Aug 29 at 15:08
Win16 framework using GetProp / SetProp to bind class to window?
Awarded Aug 28 at 5:22
Function to return free memory in Sinclair ZX Spectrum BASIC?
Awarded Aug 26 at 23:43
How does the “Odyssey 2001” boot virus for the Apple IIgs work?
Awarded Aug 23 at 19:34
How to get code of a program that decrypts itself?
Awarded Aug 22 at 18:35
At which address does a COFF executable start executing?
Awarded Aug 20 at 2:42
Apple IIgs program SHGR problem
Awarded Aug 20 at 2:42
Saving screen pixels to string in ZX Basic
Awarded Aug 12 at 16:40
Hello World C program compiled with vbcc runs in Vamos but not on Amiga 500 (Workbench 1.3) via FS-UAE
Awarded Aug 1 at 18:32
What were the two colored keys on a MUPID for?
Awarded Jul 28 at 20:33
Why did many arcade games have separate sound CPUs?
Awarded Jul 28 at 16:25
When and why is fwait necessary when using the 8087 coprocessor?
Awarded Jul 24 at 17:05
Where did the name of Windows XP come from? Was it connected to the Cairo project?
Awarded Jul 24 at 10:32
Which linker or object-file format imposed the 6-character restriction on external names?
Awarded Jul 23 at 12:16
What problems did Knuth have because TeX and WEB were Pascal instead of C?
Awarded Jul 22 at 17:25
How is `SELECT` for MS-DOS 3.30 supposed to be used on 360KB floppy systems?
Awarded Jul 17 at 23:46
How did the Amiga 1000 WCS (write controlled store) for Kickstart work?
Awarded Jul 12 at 7:45
What was the first computer-based video editing software ever developed?
Awarded Jun 26 at 1:54
What was the purpose of the System/360 unnormalized floating point add/subtract instructions?
Awarded Jun 25 at 20:25
Sequential Analog Computers?
Awarded Jun 23 at 11:11
Bit names/indexing in the TMS99xx family
Awarded Jun 23 at 2:53
Was the TRS-80 Model II widely adopted for business use?
Awarded Jun 22 at 0:57
What was the first x86 processor to run a virtual machine?
Awarded Jun 21 at 20:53
Earliest use of SECDED memory ECC
Awarded Jun 18 at 22:06
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Awarded Jun 18 at 14:35
Was sterling support a part of official (ANSI/ISO) COBOL standards?
Awarded Jun 16 at 4:14
Why is the Unix command "touch" called touch? How is it related to new/create or update?
Awarded Jun 16 at 3:01
How does Windows 98 decide about CHS or LBA access?
Awarded Jun 12 at 16:42
Can Microsoft Windows 1.0 run on CPUs older than Intel 8086 with some software patches and hardware modifications?
Awarded Jun 7 at 16:23
What did a mouse from before 1988 with 5 buttons look like?
Awarded Jun 6 at 1:31
Z80N multiply compared to MC68000
Awarded Jun 3 at 13:00
Why did the AT Attachment HDD interface limit itself to 16 heads?
Awarded May 28 at 12:46
Why did the NES/FC's PPU's OAM use memory that 'decays' over time?
Awarded May 26 at 12:26
Maximum number of sprites per scan-line on Ghosts'n Goblins Arcade Hardware?
Awarded May 20 at 6:13
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