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Wealth Distribution in the United States

The Globus INK: a mechanical navigation computer for Soviet spaceflight (2023)

Reverse-engineering a three-axis attitude indicator from the F-4 fighter plane

Inside a Ferroelectric RAM Chip

The Pentium as a Navajo Weaving

The guidance system and computer of the Minuteman III nuclear missile

Reverse engineering XC2064, the first FPGA (2020)

Reverse engineering the 59-pound printer onboard the Space Shuttle

Inside an IBM/Motorola mainframe controller chip from 1981

Standard cells: Looking at individual gates in the Pentium processor

"Maxwell's equations of software" examined (2008)

The tiny chip that powers Montreal subway tickets

Inside a vintage aerospace navigation computer of uncertain purpose

Silicon reverse engineering: The 8085's undocumented flags (2013)

Talking to memory: Inside the Intel 8088 processor's bus interface state machine

Iconic consoles of the IBM System/360 mainframes, 55 years old (2019)

The Intel 8088 processor's instruction prefetch circuitry: a look inside

An unusual 7400-series chip implemented with a gate array

A Counterfeit 8086 Processor (2020)

MacBook charger teardown: The surprising complexity inside Apple's power adapter (2015)

The first microcomputer: The transfluxor-powered Arma Micro Computer from 1962

Inside the mechanical Bendix Air Data Computer, part 5: motor/tachometers

IBM, sonic delay lines, and the history of the 80×24 display

Reverse-engineering an analog Bendix air data computer: part 4, the Mach section

Reverse engineering standard cell logic in the Intel 386 processor

The mechanical Bendix Air Data Computer, part 3: pressure transducers

Using Arc to decode Venter's DNA watermark (2010)

Reverse engineering CMOS, illustrated with a vintage Soviet counter chip

Reverse-engineering the Yamaha DX7 synthesizer's sound chip from die photos (2021)

Two interesting XOR circuits inside the Intel 386 processor

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