Stories by userbinator

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]

A Pre-Release Version of IBM PC-DOS from June 1981, Also Called DOS 0.90 (2021)

Gematria

Rare Otis Pop-Out Elevators (2016) [video]

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