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What's Inside the Pentium Chip?
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2 points
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doener
on July 7, 2024
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1 comment
IBM Announced System/360 60 Years Ago Today
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6 points
by
hasheddan
on April 7, 2024
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Space Shuttle teleprinter reverse engineering
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twitter.com/kenshirriff
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106 points
by
DAddYE
on March 20, 2024
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73 comments
Reverse Engineering a Soviet CMOS Chip
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63 points
by
klelatti
on Jan 29, 2024
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14 comments
Intel's 386 processor (1985) was an important milestone
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3 points
by
doener
on Dec 17, 2023
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1 comment
Important Chips Designed at Intel Israel
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2 points
by
hasheddan
on Oct 13, 2023
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Central Air Data Computer gave airspeed for fighters used gears for computations
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2 points
by
aaws11
on April 25, 2023
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Why divisions was hard to implement into CPU
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3 points
by
taubek
on April 9, 2023
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The rotating globe of the Globus(1967) showed cosmonauts their location in orbit
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3 points
by
vinnyglennon
on March 7, 2023
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Soyuz Globus INK reversed engineered and powered up
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twitter.com/kenshirriff
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3 points
by
sohkamyung
on Feb 22, 2023
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Bendix central air data computer
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twitter.com/kenshirriff
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3 points
by
superphil0
on Feb 13, 2023
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2 comments
The Intel 8086 chip only has 19618 transistors instead of the 29k advertised
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28 points
by
tudorconstantin
on Jan 15, 2023
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5 comments
How does an airspeed indicator work?
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3 points
by
omnibrain
on Jan 12, 2023
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1 comment
The Bendix Central Air Data Computer (CADC)
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1 point
by
tosh
on Dec 17, 2022
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Reverse engineering 8086's bootstrap driver by studying it under a microscope
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3 points
by
amir
on Nov 14, 2022
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The Bendix Central Air Data Computer (CADC)
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62 points
by
wglb
on Nov 13, 2022
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21 comments
Bendix Central Air Data Computer – USAF Mechanical Computer from 1955
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9 points
by
areoform
on Nov 12, 2022
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Can anyone identify this mystery item?
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twitter.com/kenshirriff
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3 points
by
sohkamyung
on Oct 11, 2022
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The MOS 7600: 1976 video game chip
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twitter.com/kenshirriff
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7 points
by
ingve
on Sept 7, 2022
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Reverse-engineering the MOS 7600 video game chip from 1976
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twitter.com/kenshirriff
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5 points
by
Eduard
on Sept 6, 2022
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Himars mobile rocket launcher “virtual” teardown
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twitter.com/kenshirriff
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11 points
by
mariuz
on July 29, 2022
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3 comments
HIMARS virtual teardown
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twitter.com/kenshirriff
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8 points
by
trasz
on July 28, 2022
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The Apollo 1960s FM Radio
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twitter.com/kenshirriff
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8 points
by
tambourine_man
on July 11, 2022
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2 comments
Apollo spacecraft premodulation processor teardown
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twitter.com/kenshirriff
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26 points
by
kloch
on May 15, 2022
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12 comments
Apollo's Premodulation Processor
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twitter.com/kenshirriff
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2 points
by
Jugurtha
on May 13, 2022
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How do you measure the distance to a spacecraft?
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twitter.com/kenshirriff
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4 points
by
winkywooster
on April 23, 2022
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MK48Z02B zero power RAM chip
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twitter.com/kenshirriff
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5 points
by
fortran77
on April 22, 2022
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2 comments
IBM 729 tape drive repair
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twitter.com/kenshirriff
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2 points
by
sohkamyung
on March 31, 2022
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The premodulation processor was a key component of the Apollo missions
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twitter.com/kenshirriff
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2 points
by
danso
on March 29, 2022
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I'm reverse-engineering the mysterious Up-Data test box from the Apollo project
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twitter.com/kenshirriff
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8 points
by
sohkamyung
on March 27, 2022
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