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Why was the return key symbol ↵ drawn differently from the motion of a CR-LF?
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Why were relays prevalent in early 1940s computers when vacuum tubes were also available?
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Why were optical drives not used as secondary storage instead of magnetic drives?
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Why does integer division round down in many scripting languages?
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When did compilers start generating optimized code that runs faster than an average programmer's assembly code?
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Why does PAUSE key have a long make code and no break code?
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What did the "programs" that "human computers" executed look like?
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Why did the IBM PC have an internal power supply?
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Did the 68000 separate A/D registers save circuitry?
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Was it possible to write a novel on a BBC Micro 16kb/32kb memory era computer without expansions?
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How fast were BASIC interpreters in the 80s? (Is this optimization for speed really necessary?)
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3 beeps on a 486 computer with an American Megatrends bios?
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Have any large aeroplanes been landed — safely and without damage — in locations that they could not be flown away from?
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What is DRAM refresh and why is the weird Apple II video memory layout affected by it?
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Why the change in layout of single and double precision in floating-point registers?
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How did the "Programmer's Switch" work on early Macintosh Computers?
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How did 68k-based Macs (or other contemporary systems) detect how much RAM was installed?
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Could you create a loop in direct-mode with BASIC?
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Why did so many early microcomputers use the MOS 6502 and variants?
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20
What is 'unsigned char near'?
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19
Why is the keyboard and cellphone / telephone numbers in a different order?
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Was it possible programmatically to manipulate the volume as well as the pitch on computers with no sound chip?
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If the Black Sea was disconnected from the Mediterranean, how long would it take to become freshwater?
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Why was "C:" chosen for the first hard drive partition?
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What is the worst opening move in Chess960 for White?
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9-pin vs 10-pin serial port ribbon cables
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What was the 1 MHz bus used for on the BBC micro series?
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Are the 6809 and 6809E different from a programmer's point of view?
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Do the holes in Jacquard loom punched cards represent input data or program code?
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What does it take to recreate microchips like 68000 and 6502 in their original process nodes nowadays?
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