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As I remember, DOS had to update a backup copy of the FAT with each disk write, which I imagine would have greatly slowed write speed. Yet I don't recall any recovery software that used the second ...
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All I've got is a picture of the Servus 7771 terminal, which was apparently used to access the Servus 100 host (whose manual is visible on the photo):
There appears to be nothing on the web about ...
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I got a nice Atari 600XL with a 1010 "Program Recorder" (cassette player). Too bad the motor drive belt broke and I am now trying to find a good replacement. I already tried a square belt, ...
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The Commodore 128 keyboard has, in addition to the normal keys, three mechanical toggle switches: SHIFT LOCK, CAPS LOCK (ASCII/DIN in the German model) and 40/80 DISP. One of them broke apart on my ...
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There are a lot of retro-computers with BASIC as an integral part of the operating system. The IBM 5100 was one of the first computers with a separate memory space for BASIC, followed by the Commodore ...
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The cursor used on my 486 (and Pentium 3) in MS-DOS 6/7 has a thick underlined character. I cannot find that in code page 437. The underscore character is the closest to it, but is thinner.
Where ...
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I started my web design career back in the late 90s, and at that time web page technologies seemed to be in a state of flux. In particular, I remember a transitional period prior to widespread ...
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I started using computers with MS-DOS and as far as I can remember the data structure holding files was called a directory (it held other directories as well), DIR is still used to list the content of ...
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For those who are unfamiliar, the original NES Metroid was one of many NES games to use passwords as a means to save progress.
Later, this password system was leveraged to create unusual effects in ...
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How did the 8-bit computers (Spectrum, Commodore, Atari, Amstrad etc) typically "bootstrap" from bare electronics into a platform with a working assembly language and OS?
What I mean: An assembler is ...
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In Super Mario Bros. for the NES and Famicom there exists a secret world, accessible by clipping through a wall to the first warp zone and entering the left-most pipe.
This pipe will take you to ...
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