Skip to main content
Retrocomputing
Adam Hyland's user avatar
Adam Hyland's user avatar
Adam Hyland's user avatar
Adam Hyland
  • Member for 3 years, 11 months
  • Last seen this week
Profile Activity

Stats

1,082
reputation
9k
reached
7
answers
4
questions
Communities
View all

About

Interested in histories of technology and futures of humanity

Badges

View all badges
This user doesn’t have any gold badges yet.
6
silver badges
23
bronze badges

Top tags

View all tags
29
Score
7
Posts
64
Posts %
23
Score
7
Posts
64
Posts %
13
Score
4
Posts
36
Posts %
13
Score
4
Posts
36
Posts %
8
Score
2
Posts
18
Posts %
8
Score
2
Posts
18
Posts %

Top posts

View all questions and answers
question
22
Looking for help understanding a 'Reciproot' routine on the Manchester Mark I (1951)
Feb 23, 2023
question
19
When did type punning through violating the strict aliasing rule become disallowed?
Jan 30, 2023
answer
11
Did any attendees write up accounts of pre-1980 Homebrew Computer Club meetings?
Jul 3, 2024
answer
10
What is the earliest use in C of indexing the bits of a float or double to sample a table lookup?
Apr 21, 2024
question
9
What floating point libraries were written to meet the IEEE 754 standard before it was accepted in 1985?
Apr 23, 2024
answer
8
What floating point libraries were written to meet the IEEE 754 standard before it was accepted in 1985?
Apr 23, 2024
question
7
What is the earliest use in C of indexing the bits of a float or double to sample a table lookup?
Feb 2, 2023
answer
3
What is the earliest use in C of indexing the bits of a float or double to sample a table lookup?
Feb 6, 2023
answer
3
What were/are "T-cables" and what makes them thinner and less expensive compared to coax cables?
Oct 16, 2023
answer
3
Which (micro) computers were dominant in Australia and New Zealand in the 1980s?
Dec 2, 2024

Top network posts

View all network posts
23
Why does the integer representation of a floating point number offer a piecewise linear approximation to the logarithm?
22
Read gzipped csv directly from a url in R
20
Short story or scene about recreating someone's words from the air in the room they spoke in
19
How to cross-paste all combinations of two vectors (each-to-each)?
17
First airplane with software?