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Why did modems have speakers?
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Why are rain clouds darker?
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What does a mm of rain mean?
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Why did Visual Basic use parentheses for both function call and array access?
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Why isn't pressure filtration popular compared to vacuum filtration?
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What is the word for the airflow effect from opening two windows on opposite sides of a room?
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Why are regenerative brakes uncommon on e-bikes?
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Reductive instead of oxidative based metabolism
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How did the early Macintosh computers update the display?
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Are there any English words pronounced with sounds/syllables that aren't part of the spelling?
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Adding gears to my grandson's 12" bike
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400–430 degrees Celsius heated bath
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Accelerators for Z80 micros?
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In TRS-80 parlance when talking about disks, what are "granules" and "lumps"?
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Any examples of liquids volatile at room temp but non-flammable?
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When was the first tri-state IC produced?
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TI-99 display interference
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How much space did the 68000 registers take up?
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Do predators tend to have vertical slit pupils versus horizontal for prey animals?
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Is there a star over my head?
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Why were early personal computer monitors not green?
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What was the design of the Macintosh II's MMU replacement?
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What was the first CPU/FPU without a hardware square-rooter?
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Snowball Earth brightness
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Safely adjusting CRT while it's on?
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Did personal computers ever support 8" floppies?
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Can uranium be used directly as a heat source?
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Columns of text in early microcomputers
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Were any external disk drives stacked vertically?
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Name this Macintosh music application
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