Stories by userbinator

Frigidaire – A Fortress of Steel (1939) [video]

DOS's Last Stand on a modern ThinkPad: X13 Gen 1 with Intel i5-10310U (2024)

LM8560, the eternal chip from the 1980 years

The OS/2 Display Driver Zoo

Smarta Tradition

Old Chips, New Glitches: The CGA/CRTC "Phantom" VSync (2023)

INapGPU: Text-mode graphics card, using only TTL gates

LTE downlink: synchronization signals (2022)

The Coso Artifact: Mystery from the Depths of Time (2018)

Door Reversal Devices: 1930-1960

Nuvistor Valves

8x19 Text Mode Font Origins

Dumb to managed switch conversion (2010)

More than two hard disks in DOS

Diversity Scheme

I just decompiled a decompiler so I could use it to decompile itself (2008)

1990 Networking: LAN Manager 2.0

2-4 wire converters / hybrids (2009)

The Capacity, Performance, and Reliability of MicroSD Cards

Windows 10 spies on your use of System Settings (2021)

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