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Showing posts with label chips. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chips. Show all posts

Reverse-engineering the classic MK4116 16-kilobit DRAM chip

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Back in the late 1970s, the most popular memory chip was Mostek's MK4116, holding a whopping (for the time) 16 kilobits. It provided ...
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Inside the stacked RAM modules used in the Apple III

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In 1978, a memory chip stored just 16 kilobits of data. To make a 32-kilobit memory chip, Mostek came up with the idea of putting two 16K ...
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Inside the HP Nanoprocessor: a high-speed processor that can't even add

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The Nanoprocessor is a mostly-forgotten processor developed by Hewlett-Packard in 1974 1 as a microcontroller 2 for their products. Stra...
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