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tuomas

Helsinki, Suomi

PhD in computing science, interested in everything about Eastern bloc, obsolete technology, neutron stars and particle physics.

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26 votes

Twist in floppy disk cable - hack or intended design?

ibm-pc floppy-disk design-choices asked Dec 5 '20 at 19:48
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19 votes

Term “console” in game consoles

history game-consoles asked Jul 18 '19 at 8:59
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17 votes

How much of a wave function must reside inside event horizon for it to be consumed by the black hole?

quantum-mechanics black-holes wavefunction event-horizon asked Apr 25 '19 at 6:57
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13 votes

PC/AT two DMA controllers - what is the purpose of cascade channel and how did it work?

ibm-pc dma asked Apr 19 '20 at 18:11
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11 votes

No hair and neutron stars

neutron-star asked Oct 24 '16 at 23:18
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10 votes

Did any deputies in the USSR ever get recalled via provisions in the 1977 constitution?

soviet-union election socialism asked Aug 16 '20 at 20:17
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9 votes

From where does the energy for gravitational waves come from?

black-hole gravitational-waves asked Jun 10 '17 at 19:18
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8 votes

Why VGA framebuffer was limited to 64kB window?

ibm-pc memory-layout vga asked Jun 4 '19 at 21:15
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8 votes

What exactly could cause corrupted graphics in WinG performance test?

graphics windows31 asked Oct 12 '20 at 18:15
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7 votes

WEGA operating system origins

history unix asked Jul 11 '19 at 20:08
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