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The Texas Instruments TMX 1795: the (almost) first, forgotten microprocessor
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The first 8-bit microprocessor, the TMX 1795 had the same architecture as the 8008 but was built months before the 8008. Never sold commerci...
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12-minute Mandelbrot: fractals on a 50 year old IBM 1401 mainframe
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When I found out that the Computer History Museum has a working IBM 1401 computer [1] , I wondered if it could generate the Mandelbrot frac...
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A database of SMS cards: The technology inside IBM's 1960s mainframes
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IBM's mainframes of the 1960s are based on an interesting technology - Standard Modular System cards or SMS cards. These cards, created...
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How to display the Bitcoin symbol using a webfont
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Bitcoin Wiki describes some alternative ways to display the symbol that are easier than my approach. You're probably better off readi...
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Inside the Intel 1405: die photos of a shift register memory from 1970
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In 1970, MOS memory chips were just becoming popular, but were still very expensive. Intel had released their first product the previous yea...
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