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Apple I operation manual (1976) [pdf]
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Von Neumann's First Computer Program (1970)
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A History of Early Microcontrollers, Part 1
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How many computers are in your computer? (2021)
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The mainframe in your pocket running minicomputer software
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A history of ARM, part 1: Building the first chip
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Texas Instruments TMX 1795: the almost first, forgotten microprocessor (2015)
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The first million-transistor chip: The engineers’ story
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What? More 8-Bit Microcontrollers?
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Early Copy Protection on the Apple II
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The Apple-1's shift-register memory
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AppleSqueezer GS: A Modern Apple ][ Accelerator
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The Apple-1's unusual MOS clock driver chip
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The IBM 4020 Military Computer – Tracking Missiles with 6-Bit Bytes
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First new VAX in 30 years?
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Why Some Old Computers Are Interesting
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Mark 1 Forth Computer (2006)
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Microprocessors Running on Air?
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The thinking behind the 32GB Windows Format limit on FAT32
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Reverse-engineering an early calculator chip with four-phase logic
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The Acorn Archimedes and the first ARM processor
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Casio FX-880P Personal Computer Teardown
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Cloning a 6502 Apple-1 in just 930 logic gates
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Al Alcorn, creator of Pong, explains the NTSC color graphics trick
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Von Neumann Universal Constructor
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Build an 8-bit home computer with 5 chips
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What made the 1960s CDC6600 supercomputer fast?
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Atari 8-Bit Display List Interrupts: An Advanced Tutorial
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“Special register groups” invaded computer dictionaries for decades
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A computer built from NOR gates: inside the Apollo Guidance Computer
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Building a vacuum tube computer
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Archiving C64 Tapes Correctly
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The 640K memory limit of MS-DOS
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Mainframes and Supercomputers, From the Beginning Till Today
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Apple2fpga: Reconstructing an Apple II+ on an FPGA (2008)
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Why did Mac OS 7 perform poorly with virtual memory enabled?
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The 640 K Barrier
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One-bit Computing at 60 Hertz
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Magnetic core memory reborn (2011)
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Reverse engineering the ARM1, ancestor of the iPhone's processor
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The Visual ARM1
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One-bit Computing at 60 Hz
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Turning the Apple //e into a lisp machine, part 1
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The Core Memory Module from my dad’s homebuilt PDP-11/05
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First new VAX in 30 years? (2021)
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Tiny Computers from Texas: The Early History of the Microcontroller
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Mexican Computers: A Brief Technical and Historical Overview
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FPGA-Based Disk Controller for the Apple II (2017)
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A modern 8 bit design, built using 1950s thermionic valves
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Apple II graphics: More than you wanted to know
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Open Source FPGA Expansion Card for the Apple II
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Emulating the Early Macintosh Floppy Drive
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