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Inside the Apollo “8-Ball” FDAI (Flight Director / Attitude Indicator)
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174 points
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zdw
28 days ago
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40 comments
The Xerox Alto, Smalltalk, and rewriting a running GUI (2017)
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124 points
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rbanffy
32 days ago
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46 comments
Cells are fast and crowded places
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6 points
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jc_811
54 days ago
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3 comments
Reverse engineering the 386 processor's prefetch queue circuitry
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170 points
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todsacerdoti
63 days ago
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51 comments
The complicated circuitry for the 386 processor's registers
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36 points
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Tomte
72 days ago
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6 comments
A tricky Commodore PET repair: tracking down 6 1/2 bad chips
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69 points
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todsacerdoti
3 months ago
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24 comments
Undocumented 8086 instructions, explained by the microcode
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3 points
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thunderbong
3 months ago
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Undocumented 8086 instructions, explained by the microcode
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14 points
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birdculture
3 months ago
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3 comments
Notes on the Pentium's microcode circuitry
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183 points
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leotravis10
3 months ago
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32 comments
A USB Interface to the "Mother of All Demos" Keyset
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321 points
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zdw
3 months ago
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86 comments
The Pentium contains a complicated circuit to multiply by three
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374 points
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Tomte
4 months ago
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153 comments
Two bits per transistor: high-density ROM in Intel's 8087 FPU (2018)
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5 points
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Syonyk
4 months ago
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The Intel 1405: die photos of a shift register memory from 1970 (2014)
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righto.com
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2 points
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redbell
5 months ago
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The origin and unexpected evolution of the word "mainframe"
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righto.com
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160 points
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todsacerdoti
5 months ago
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44 comments
Risky line printer music on a vintage IBM mainframe (2019)
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4 points
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CharlesW
5 months ago
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Interesting BiCMOS circuits in the Pentium, reverse-engineered
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57 points
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DamonHD
5 months ago
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14 comments
Reverse-engineering a carry-lookahead adder in the Pentium
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69 points
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DamonHD
5 months ago
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14 comments
The origin of the cargo cult metaphor
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291 points
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zdw
6 months ago
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678 comments
Reverse Engineering the Constants in the Pentium FPU
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151 points
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mef
6 months ago
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23 comments
555 timer teardown: inside the world's most popular IC (2016)
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6 points
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wizardforhire
6 months ago
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Intel's $475M error: the silicon behind the Pentium division bug
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378 points
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gslin
6 months ago
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116 comments
Mining Bitcoin with Pencil and Paper (2014)
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2 points
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lispybanana
7 months ago
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Antenna Diodes in the Pentium Processor
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righto.com
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266 points
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chmaynard
7 months ago
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51 comments
Apple iPhone Charger Teardown (2012)
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righto.com
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1 point
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tosh
8 months ago
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Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day (2014)
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righto.com
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13 points
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jakey_bakey
8 months ago
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4 comments
Wealth Distribution in the United States
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84 points
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ssklash
9 months ago
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120 comments
The Globus INK: a mechanical navigation computer for Soviet spaceflight (2023)
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193 points
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dangle1
9 months ago
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25 comments
Reverse-engineering a three-axis attitude indicator from the F-4 fighter plane
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212 points
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zdw
9 months ago
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65 comments
Inside a Ferroelectric RAM Chip
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141 points
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chmaynard
9 months ago
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74 comments
The Pentium as a Navajo Weaving
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484 points
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GavinAnderegg
10 months ago
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84 comments
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