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PDP-11 Lives In Literal Computer Desk Once More

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Reverse Engineering The PROM For The SGI O2

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Michael Wessel's PicoRAM Ultimate Vintage SBC Expansion Doubles Its RAM Emulation to a Generous 4kB - Hackster.io

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How the Tandy Color Computer Works. [The 8-Bit Guy] [28:39]

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Getting The VIC-20 To Speak Again

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"Adventure of the Mind" 1979 Data Processing & Personal Computer Educational Film

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The Soviet Computer That Used the Ternary Number System Instead of Binary

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Conditions in the Intel 8087 floating-point chip's microcode

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Found a piece of history in the scrap pile today. [3024x4032 - 1.38MB]

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Unix v4 tape dumped and booted (only known copy)

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University of Utah team discovers rare computer relic - A 9 track tape with Unix from Bell Labs v4

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TMS9900-based Home Brew Computer

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The SID: Classic 8-bit sound [Ben Eater] [34:46]

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Before the jews embraced programmed obsolescence for more profits [01:39]

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AMD first entered the CPU market with reverse-engineered Intel 8080 clone 50 years ago — the Am9080 cost 50 cents apiece to make, but sold for $700 | Tom's Hardware

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Windows 95, With Just A Floppy Drive

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Darude's Sandstorm on a Commodore PET from 1977. The PET had no dedicated sound hardware only a piezo beeper. (Video by David Given)

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Microcomputers – The Second Wave: Toward A Mass Market

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Nothing says ‘circular economy’ like Microsoft stranding 400 million PCs on International E-waste Day

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Microsoft BASIC For 6502 Is Now Open Source

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A Unique, High-Tech (Family) Computer (Famiclone)

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Kevin Boone: Running CP/M on the Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller [2021]

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Arctic Adventure: A 1981 Game for the TRS-80 MC-10

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Rescuing two PDP-11 systems in UK from a former big British Telecom underground shelter in central London

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Don’t Turn That Old System On, First Take It Apart

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