Unanswered Questions

I have a TRS-80 4P that works beautifully, and I'd love to set it up as a terminal to other equipment I own (a Linux server, or a PiDP-11), but I'm having trouble finding actual, functional terminal ...

Is video output from Megatech Arcade board compatible with contemporary digital monitors (or analog to HDMI upscalers)? My board was working at seller's side (I have a video as a proof), but he tested ...

Introduction As far as I understand, DOS/4GW was the thing that allowed most games from MS-DOS era to access beyond the 640KB conventional memory limit. (For completeness, there was also EMS and XMS, ...

It was suggested to me to move this question from SO to here. There was a relatively short (in tech terms, at least) period during which MMX was the only way to vectorise integer operations on the x86,...

Edit: sorry it's so many words. I thought it might be helpful to share as much as I have learned so far as possible. Also, here's the link to service manual that includes the schematics. https://www....

Could you please summarize pinout (voltage levels and potentially a communication protocol if applicable) of PDA Acer n50 battery? I haven't found any spec in Google and AI provides just nonsense ...

Due to recent references to IBM’s S/38, I was pondering the possibility of doing an emulator. There seems to be adequate hardware information but the roms would be required. Did images of the various ...

I'm looking for Minix 1.6 disk images for i386 or i86 (16-bit x86). The disk image can be an installer, a demo floppy, or a HDD image of an already installed system. I know about Minix-386vm 1.6.26.1, ...

It's about the distributed Unix-like Amoeba OS developed at the Free University of Amsterdam by Andrew Tanenbaum: Since the late 1990, there seems to have been no measureable progress in development. ...

From Visitors serie, episode 17, minute 27 circa. Willy and young friend are playing a video game, which game is this? Is not Captain commando, is very similar (but is not) to Chicago coin commando, ...

I was trying to remember what I was using back in the early 90s for internal documentation at IBM back in the day. I worked at a site in Tampa that housed 3090 mainframes and was using VM/CMS. Does ...

An annoying hardware quirk of the 6502 is that while the READY line can be used to extend read operations, it cannot be used likewise for writes. As a result, systems which need to accommodate DMA ...

I remember a funny DOS game, which I would like to play again. It was able to be played by up to 4 people simultaneously. Each player had exactly 1 key on the keyboard. The only thing required for the ...

The Nintendo DS Digital TV Tuner ("DS Terebi") was an accessory for the Nintendo DS that allowed it to receive 1seg (low-bandwidth mobile video) terrestrial broadcast stations. According to ...

I'm looking for a purchase option or a free download of the earliest assembler executable supporting the AT&T syntax (e.g. movl $42, (%eax)) for the i386. Most likely this will be the COFF i386 ...