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How safe is 48V DC?
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Why did fonts in Windows 1.01's Write application look so poor?
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What are the advantages of this gold finger shape?
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Why were germanium diodes so fast and germanium transistors so slow?
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How do I improve a simple home-made capacitor?
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How were Amiga games cracked circa 1987?
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Where are registers and what do they look like?
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Differences between oscilloscope, multimeter, and power supply voltage readings
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Building a phone charger 500 years ago
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Why do we use capacitors in parallel with DC motors?
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Why was computer memory so expensive and scarce?
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Is temperature the only battery charging speed limitation?
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Why were early personal computer monitors not green?
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Desoldering a tricky DC jack
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Why would I use 2N3904 instead of 2N4401?
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Why were early 3D games so full of muted colours?
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Why did old consoles have special RAM dedicated for a specific task?
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How much data could be stored on a standard compact cassette using modern encoding?
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Were there any 8080 computers that used a bitmapped display?
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Why was it not possible to cost-reduce the Amiga 500?
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Is HSYNC required during VSYNC for VGA?
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Why do LED headlamp bulbs need active cooling?
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Reduction of DC motor noise
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Do solar inverters dump excess generated energy as heat?
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Desoldering a tricky DC jack
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STM32F4 : Floating point instructions too slow
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Why are circuit results different from theorised?
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Physical resolution and control of old VGA (color) CRT monitors
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Question about old telephones (late 70's - early 80's)
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How does filling a via with solder change its resistance or impedance?
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