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Examining circuit boards from the Space Shuttle's I/O Processor

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The Space Shuttle's five 1 general-purpose computers played a critical role in each flight: controlling the engines, monitoring thousan...
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The adder at the heart of Intel's 8087 floating-point chip

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In 1980, Intel released the Intel 8087 floating-point coprocessor, a chip that could make math up to 100 times faster. As well as arithmetic...
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Powering up a module from the IBM 604: an electronic calculator from 1948

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1948 was an interesting time for computing. For decades, businesses had used punch card equipment that added and sorted electromechanically....
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