Altair 8800, the first personal computer to make it big
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🍎Apple Computing
The Primitive Tortureboard
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⌨️Mechanical Keyboards
This creative concept reinvents the 1.44MB floppy disk as a modern storage device – a holder for today’s SD cards packing terabytes of storage
techradar.com·9h
💽Floppy disks
Cole's Nerd-stuff Blog: Reverse Engineering the AY-3-8500, part 1: Demystifying the Pins
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⚡Circuit Archaeology
Automated Mineral Identification & Cleaning Trajectory Optimization for Fossil Preparation
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🏺Computational Archaeology
NFC Hidden In Floppy Disk For Retro-Themed PC
hackaday.com·1d
🕹️Retro Gaming
I Love Reading 1980s Computer Magazines, and So Should You
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💾vintage computing
Hottest engine in the world reveals weirdness of microscopic physics
newscientist.com·1d
⚛️Information Physics
On This Day in Math - August 29
pballew.blogspot.com·2d·
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🔍Polish Cryptanalysis
Designing PDFs for Pattern-Based Reading
pdfa.org·1d
📄PDF Internals
Short History of the Business Card, from Versailles to Microsoft Word
themalin.co·1d·
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🖋Typography
Windows 8.1 graphics get bit-crushed into working in 40-year-old EGA graphics mode — less than half-megapixel display mode is limited to 16 colors
tomshardware.com·16h
🖥️Terminal Renaissance
Antiferromagnets outperform ferromagnets in ultrafast, energy-efficient memory operations
phys.org·1d
⏰Time Crystals
Shooting Gallery: Touring the MSX1’s Capabilities
bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com·9h
🕹️Retro Gaming
Relative frequency of SI units and prefixes
sandrock.co.za·1h·
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📡DNS Archaeology
New Theory Casually Upends Space and Time
popularmechanics.com·16h
⏰Time Crystals
Designing Custom Arcade Hardware: Part II
zdziarski.com·14h
🎮Gameboy Emulation
LongCat-Flash, a language model with 560B total parameters, MoE architecture
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📊Count-Min Sketch
TEAC founded in 1953, sort of
dfarq.homeip.net·2d
💾vintage computing
Julia Hertäg: Three Generations of German Working Class Cinema
newleftreview.org·11h
🎬Cinema Technology