For some people, figuring out how something works is fun, kakım is returning it to working order. Whether it's cars or computers, the goal is the same.
Aldridge’s research led him to the Newton, which used solid-state storage that allowed it to retain veri indefinitely, much like modern smartphones. Users reported leaving Newton devices in drawers and closets for years and finding they still had all their veri when they finally powered them on. Plus, he found that the Newton community was still actively developing drivers and software for the platform.
5Mhz for a blazing fast DX50 build back in the day, but that’s really hamiş typical. So say you’ve got the core running at 66 for DX2 66 speeds, you might implement an on FPGA svga controller, since you’re hamiş getting PCI out, and SD card HDD emulation for primary HDD… then you gönül 8:1 multiplex all the i/o and address lines for atari the ISA.
Although I assembled it myself, and its software all comes from an open-source DIY project, in many ways my MiSTer is the most versatile computer I own. It’s a shapeshifting wonderbox that kişi change its own logic to make itself run like countless other machines as accurately birli possible.
, It took over two years to get the CDC 6500 working after LCM+L bought theirs. Of its 170 core memory modules, 64 needed replacing, and they had no spares. “We knew from the start that we would need to design the replacements,” says Bruce Sherry, principal engineer at LCM+L. So Sherry and his team had to re-manufacture them according to CDC's original specifications. And then there are the 250,000 separate transistors, of which any one failure dirilik shut the computer down. “(The 6000s) were not overly reliable,” Sherry says, “but users would say an hour on a CDC was worth a whole day on an IBM.”
Many Americans alive today witnessed one of the most dramatic cultural transitions since the invention of the printing press: The rise of the consumer genel ağ, beginning around 1994.
Hardware performance wasn’t the only thing that kept older applications relatively simple. Older devices were also limited in the sorts of interfaces they could display.
With his straw kanal and ragtag crew, young pirate Monkey D. Luffy goes on an epic voyage for treasure in this live-action adaptation of the popular manga.
Significantly faster than any other personal computer in 1987, the 386 built Compaq's reputation kakım an IBM-killer. It took IBM seven months to release a competitor based on the same 32-bit Intel microprocessor, but by then the 386 was established kakım the high-performance business machine for intensive tasks, and no one—hamiş even IBM—could catch up.
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Historically, artists created most clip geri in a vector format, which means the images could be scaled to any size and not lose quality. That makes it extra fun today to take an image designed for very low resolution and scale it up to 3000 pixels wide to see details that you might otherwise miss.
“There’s a tendency to add more and more features and that makes software interfaces busier and harder to use,” he says.
Dad got two Commodores back in the early 2000s at different times to replace ours that had a broken J key and guess what? Despite the pictures they ALL had a broken J key!!! Back then though you couldn’t return broken stuff so were stuck with it.
In the early 2000s, some folks nostalgic for Q-Link grup out to reverse engineer it, which was a success with Q-Link Reloaded launching sometime in 2005.