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Bitcoin mining on a 55 year old IBM 1401 mainframe: 80 seconds per hash

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Could an IBM mainframe from the 1960s mine Bitcoin? The idea seemed crazy, so I decided to find out. I implemented the Bitcoin hash algorith...
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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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