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The hearts of the Super Nintendo

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Refurb weekend: Data General/One (and the worst LCD in the world)

oldvcr.blogspot.com

I mentioned earlier that while I prefer specializing in non-x86 laptops, that doesn't mean I don't...
I mentioned earlier that while I prefer specializing in non-x86 laptops, that doesn't mean I don't collect interesting or unusual x86 laptops, like the Brother GeoBook NB-60 (I finally tracked down a mostly working NB-80C, the top of the line model, which will be the subject of a future restoration). However, this o...

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The Intel 8088 processor's instruction prefetch circuitry: a look inside

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In 1979, Intel introduced the 8088 microprocessor, a variant of the 16-bit 8086 processor. IBM's decision...
In 1979, Intel introduced the 8088 microprocessor, a variant of the 16-bit 8086 processor. IBM's decision to use the 8088 processor in the IBM PC (1981) was a critical point in computer history, leading to the dominance of the x86 architecture that continues to the present. One way that the 8086 and 8088 increased p...

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The Itanic Saga

abortretry.fail

Mikhail Alexanderovich Kartsev was born on the 10th of May in 1923. He was born to...
Mikhail Alexanderovich Kartsev was born on the 10th of May in 1923. He was born to a family in the USSR whose erstwhile occupation was pedagogy. It was a nation newly reborn of revolution at the time. He graduated from high school on the 21st of June in 1941 and the Third Reich invaded the USSR the following day. Ka...

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CAP-X and COMP-X: how the Tandy Pocket Computers got a sucky Japanese assembler

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I grew up primarily with the Commodore 64, where if you wanted to do anything really...
I grew up primarily with the Commodore 64, where if you wanted to do anything really cool and useful, you had to do it in 6502 assembly language. Today I still write 6502 assembly, plus some Power ISA and even a little TMS9900. I like assembly languages and how in control of the CPU you feel writing in one. But you ...

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Reverse engineering CMOS, illustrated with a vintage Soviet counter chip

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I recently came across an interesting die photo of a Soviet1 chip, probably designed in the...
I recently came across an interesting die photo of a Soviet1 chip, probably designed in the 1970s. This article provides an introductory guide to reverse-engineering CMOS circuits, using this chip as an example. Although the chip looks like a tangle of lines at first, its large features and simple layout make it pos...

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ArVid: how Russians squeezed 4 hard drives into one VHS tape in the 90s – Jacob Filipp

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Was there a retro computer susceptible of being damaged only by issuing instructions at it?

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Interesting double-poly latches inside AMD's vintage LANCE Ethernet chip

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I've studied a lot of chips from the 1970s and 1980s, so I usually know what...
I've studied a lot of chips from the 1970s and 1980s, so I usually know what to expect. But an Ethernet chip from 1982 had something new: a strange layer of yellow wiring on the die. After some study, I learned that the yellow wiring is a second layer of resistive polysilicon, used in the chip's static storage cells...

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The hearts of the Super Nintendo

Refurb weekend: Data General/One (and the worst LCD in the world)

The Intel 8088 processor's instruction prefetch circuitry: a look inside

The Itanic Saga

CAP-X and COMP-X: how the Tandy Pocket Computers got a sucky Japanese assembler

Reverse engineering CMOS, illustrated with a vintage Soviet counter chip

ArVid: how Russians squeezed 4 hard drives into one VHS tape in the 90s – Jacob Filipp

Was there a retro computer susceptible of being damaged only by issuing instructions at it?

Interesting double-poly latches inside AMD's vintage LANCE Ethernet chip