Stories by kens

Die photos and analysis of the revolutionary 8008 microprocessor, 45 years old

Ask HN: What 5 languages would you teach someone new to CS?

Superbeta transistors inside: Die photos and analysis of the LM108 op amp

Deep Neural Network Learns to Judge Books by Their Covers

Inside a RFID race timing chip: die photos of the Monza R6

Simulating a Xerox Alto with the ContrAlto Simulator: Games and Smalltalk

Xerox Alto Restoration Part 10 [video]

Xerox Alto Restoration Part 8: Will it boot? [video]

YC's Xerox Alto restoration Part 7: disk exerciser trial [video]

Xerox Alto Restoration Part 5 [video]

Show HN: Inspired by a HN comment, half stars proposed for Unicode [pdf]

Restoring Y Combinator's Xerox Alto, day 3: Inside the disk drive

The Works Records System and 3270's updating fields in buffer

The Works Records System and 3270's updating fields in buffer

Restoring YC's Xerox Alto, day 1: Power supplies and disk interface

Y Combinator's Xerox Alto: restoring the legendary 1970s GUI computer

Inside card sorters: 1920s data processing, relay logic and linear time sorting

Moore’s law really is dead this time

Reverse engineering ARM1 instruction sequencing, compared with the Z-80 and 6502

The Aluminum Beverage Can (1994) [pdf]

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