Reverse-engineering the conditional jump circuitry in the 8086 processor

Counting the transistors in the 8086 processor: it's harder than you might think

The Globus INK: a mechanical navigation computer for Soviet spaceflight

8086 Processor's microcode pipeline from die analysis

Reverse-engineering the Intel 8086 processor's HALT circuits

Reverse-engineering an airspeed/Mach indicator from 1977

Inside the 8086 Processor's Instruction Prefetch Circuitry

The x86's Decimal Adjust after Addition (DAA) instruction

A dozen USB chargers in the lab: Apple is good, but not quite the best

How the 8086 processor's microcode engine works

A bug fix in the 8086 microprocessor, revealed in the die's silicon

The unusual bootstrap drivers inside the 8086 microprocessor chip

The Texas Instruments TMX 1795: the (almost) first, forgotten microprocessor

Reverse-engineering a 1960s hybrid flip flop module with X-ray CT scans

Teardown of a quartz crystal oscillator and the tiny IC inside

A one-bit processor explained: reverse-engineering the vintage MC14500B

A one-bit processor explained: reverse-engineering the vintage MC14500B

Reverse-engineering the Apollo spacecraft's FM radio

X-ray reverse-engineering a hybrid module from 1960s Apollo test equipment

Talking with the Moon: Inside Apollo's premodulation processor

Reverse-engineering a mysterious Univac computer board

The digital ranging system that measured the distance to the Apollo spacecraft

Reverse-engineering the LM185 voltage reference chip and its bandgap reference

Generating the pseudo-random codes that measured distance to Apollo spacecraft

The Apple-1's shift-register memory

The Apple-1's unusual MOS clock driver chip

Reverse-engineering the waveform generator in a 1969 breadboard

A look inside the chips that powered the landmark Polaroid SX-70 instant camera

Yamaha DX7 chip reverse-engineering, part 6: the control registers

Yamaha DX7 chip reverse-engineering, part V: the output circuitry

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