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From the naming of operating system only i.e Unix = Uniplexed Information and Computing Service vs Multics = Multiplexed Information and Computing Service, I was first having a misconception that...
Asked on 08/25/2021
6 answerI clearly recall working with an object-oriented C derivative on the Mac but I cannot find any definitive references to it. It was back in the days of System 7...
Asked on 02/22/2021 by OldCurmudgeon
1 answerI'm trying to put a new CPU cooler in my 1999 IBM Aptiva 2163-580 (which has an Intel 440BX chipset, in case that's relevant). The system uses a Slot 1...
Asked on 02/20/2021 by gparyani
2 answerAccording to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VT05the VT05 presented the user with an upper-case only ASCII character display of 20 rows by 72 columns.At first glance this seems a reasonably natural...
Asked on 02/05/2021
0 answerI am looking for information on a training language called "WhatDoesItDo". It was used in 1978 at Austin Community College on a Motorola 6800 CPU. If anyone has any information,...
Asked on 02/03/2021 by user2887859
2 answerCGA on the original IBM PC produced sixteen colors, one bit each for red, green, blue and overall intensity modifier. The preferred output device was the later-arriving 5153 color monitor,...
Asked on 01/29/2021
1 answerSCSI, I think, is a serial interface. A standard serial port on PCs used a 9-pin DSub connector where a parallel port used a 25-pin connector. Then why did SCSI...
Asked on 01/23/2021 by Daniel A. White
2 answerOktalyzer was a Tracker style program for Amiga, that allowed composing and playing music with 8 channels instead of the "hardware-natural" 4. So far I learned it achieved that...
Asked on 01/21/2021 by SF.
2 answerAfter many years I bought myself a new old Amiga 500 (rev 5) and wanted to hook it up to an LCD monitor (Samsung Syncmaster 152N) that has a VGA...
Asked on 01/12/2021 by durandal
3 answerI'm looking at disk image files for the Dragon 32 / Dragon 64 computers. The Dragon computers are very similar to the Tandy TRS-80 Color Computer "CoCo" but are not...
Asked on 01/05/2021
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