Stories by ken-chen

The Friden EC-130, one of the world's first electronic calculators

8086 Microcode Disassembled

i8080 precise replica in Verilog, based on reverse engineering of real die

Longevity, and Resets

Making a miniature IBM 1401 scale model

Ask HN: Accurate Movies/Shows?

Diving into Silicon for the First Time

Using a 1930 Teletype as a Linux Terminal

Deconstructing Sega's System 16 Security – Part 2

Most(Ly Dead) Influential Programming Languages

A half century ago, better transistors revolutionized computer power supplies

Background check for job uses sentiment analysis of liked tweets

Fuzzification: Anti-Fuzzing Techniques [pdf]

A half century ago, better transistors revolutionized computer power supplies

Building the System/360 Mainframe Nearly Destroyed IBM

Apollo AGC Restoration Part 1 [video]

Glowing mercury thyratrons: inside a 1940s Teletype switching power supply

Ask HN: What common HN topic do you think is under/overhyped?

Designing the breakthrough AR game: A challenge that’s already been solved

Computer latency: 1977-2017

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