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Macbook charger teardown: The surprising complexity inside Apple's power adapter
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Have you ever wondered what's inside your Macbook's charger? There's a lot more circuitry crammed into the compact power adap...
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Understanding silicon circuits: inside the ubiquitous 741 op amp
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The 741 op amp is one of the most famous and popular ICs [1] with hundreds of millions sold since its invention in 1968 by famous IC des...
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Qui-binary arithmetic: how a 1960s IBM mainframe does math
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The IBM 1401 computer uses an unusual technique called qui-binary arithmetic to perform arithmetic. In the early 1960s, the IBM 1401 wa...
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Fixing the core memory in a vintage IBM 1401 mainframe
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I recently had the chance to help fix one of the vintage IBM 1401 computer systems at the Computer History Museum when its core memory sta...
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