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The transparent chip inside a vintage Hewlett-Packard floppy drive
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While repairing an eight-inch HP floppy drive, we found that the problem was a broken interface chip. Since the chip was bad, I decapped it ...
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Reverse engineering the Intel 386 processor's register cell
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The groundbreaking Intel 386 processor (1985) was the first 32-bit processor in the x86 line. It has numerous internal registers: general-pu...
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Reverse-engineering Ethernet backoff on the Intel 82586 network chip's die
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Introduced in 1973, Ethernet is the predominant way of wiring computers together. Chips were soon introduced to handle the low-level aspects...
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A close look at the 8086 processor's bus hold circuitry
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The Intel 8086 microprocessor (1978) revolutionized computing by founding the x86 architecture that continues to this day. One of the less...
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