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How were 70s versions of games like Pong built without a programmable computer?

Are retrocomputers best left on or off?

How similar were the MC6800 and MOS 6502?

What purpose did the lower-right Enter key serve on original Mac 128k keyboard?

Why did Borland ignore the Macintosh market?

Why were early (personal) computer connectors so bulky?

What actual purpose do accent characters in ISO-8859-1 and Windows 1252 serve?

Why does part of the Windows 98 Setup program look older than the rest? (2020)

Did any processor implement an integer square root instruction?

Telefunken Datenspeicher

Does this 8088 code in the Leisure Suit Larry 2 game do anything?

Since when does Windows support forward slash as path separator?

Was there a retro computer susceptible of being damaged only by issuing instructions at it?

Why did older computers and OSes use UPPER case instead of lower case?

Why did base64 win against uuencode?

What is the origin of the default 256-color VGA palette?

Who invented file extensions in file names?

Who invented file extensions in file names?

Why did the Motorola 68000 processor family fall out of use in PCs?

Why does trying to break into the NT 3.1 kernel reboot my 486DX4 machine?

How were the signs for logical and arithmetic operators decided?

How could the early Unix OS comprise so few lines of code?

How much better was DEC Alpha than contemporaneous x86? (2020)

How does Sonic and Knuckles' “Lock-On Technology” work? (2016)

How did it come that SATA HDD use ATA while SATA CD drives use SCSI as protocol?

Why does the Commodore C128 perform poorly when running CP/M?

Color of text on monochrome terminals with green-on-black and amber-on-black?

How to make an IBM 1311 disk drive move around the floor

Why does trying to break into the NT 3.1 kernel reboot my 486DX4 machine?

Why does trying to break into the NT 3.1 kernel reboot my 486DX4 machine?

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