Stories by userbinator

Why are the Intel 8080's rotate instructions called opposite to intuition?(2022)

PSA: SSDs with YMTC Flash Prone to Failure? Check Your SSDs (2023)

Getting into way too much detail with the Z80 netlist simulation (2021)

Visual Z80 in JavaScript

BASIC and the ROMs that changed the world (and then disappeared) (2022)

The Life Cycle of a CPU (2009)

Slimming Down Windows 3.1/3.11 (2002)

VCR Tracking Reminder Bumpers

Discovering hard disk physical geometry through microbenchmarking (2019)

The Original HTTP as defined in 1991

"Bit-Banging" Bluetooth Low Energy

Is Morse code a digital, binary mode? (2018)

Oi (Interjection)

Sennheiser HE-1 Impressions – How does a $50k headphone sound (2022)

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS98-010 – Critical (1998)

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

On Bus Arbitration on the Unibus and QBUS (2017)

Pigging

USB Made Simple (2008)

Oldsmobile Hydra-Matic Drive (1947) [pdf]

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