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Why are punch card readers nolonger in use?
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What did the 8086 (and 8088) do upon encountering an illegal instruction?
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How was the blinking terminal cursor invented?
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41
Why does the original Donkey Kong update the screen in a curtain closing pattern?
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37
How can I overclock my Commodore 64?
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35
Why were early versions of BASIC different?
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When you type on a computer terminal, how are the characters displayed on the screen?
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How to use BASIC after "LOAD "$",8 on the C64
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Could you use uppercase or special characters in a password in early Unix?
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Were the dungeons in Legend of Zelda designed to fit together?
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Why has Novell never written its own boot loader?
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Why not use fractions instead of floating point?
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Why is the serial port driver named "/dev/ttyS#"?
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Is it possible to procedurally determine the number of cycles a particular instruction takes on a 6502?
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What is the instruction set of the PDP-7?
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Which pointing devices were used by early laptop computers?
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Reason for the Amiga clock speed
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What determines which architecture an a.out executable runs on?
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Does an ISA card have a fixed memory address?
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14
Using only one terminal, can I interrupt a process that's hung on very early Unix versions?
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What register size did early computers use?
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Which Linux or BSD distributions do still support i386, i486 or i586 CPUs?
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C64, basic v2, DATA strange behavior
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Unix utility "smiley" to decode emoticons: Where to get it?
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When TCP was first invented, was the initial sequence number required to be random?
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Why did base64 win against uuencode?
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DECNet physical connector
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How to setup a teletype to a unix shell
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Were people building CPUs out of TTL logic prior to the 4004, 8080 and the 6800?
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Is the terminal number fixed?
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