Stories by michalpleban

The Origins of the IBM PC

X-rays from an overdriven magnetron [video]

Nobody wants the A20 gate, but it continues to haunt us

The first machine that ran DOS (and without the 640kB barrier)

How many bytes can you pack on a floppy, and how to hack the FDC to achieve it

The lost secrets of Palm webOS (2014)

Bill Gates's Personal Easter Eggs in 8 Bit BASIC (2008)

The only Soviet laptop ever made

Exploring SKALA: Chernobyl Reactor Control Computer [video]

Dissecting a British wartime night vision tank periscope [video]

I used DeepSeek and FLUX.1 to create 464708 tattoo designs. Here's the result

MarketGPT: AI stock pick model, +607.85% profit in 2023