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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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Reverse-engineering the carry-lookahead circuit in the Intel 8008 processor

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The 8008 was Intel's first 8-bit microprocessor, introduced in 1972. While primitive by today's standards, the 8008 is historicall...
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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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