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What's the TUBE interface of the BBC micro all about?
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Why did Apple remove booting from external drives in later IIc ROM versions?
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What was the last commercial Z80-based computer sold?
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How was the main mechanic of the game Qix implemented?
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Süddeutsche Füllwörter: "Fei"
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Wie wird das Adjektiv zum Buchhalter richtig betont?
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Warum heißt der "Hundegang" so?
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Woher kommt die Bedeutung "etwas verraten" von "durchstechen"
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What connection exists between Facit AB and Sharp on the MZ-800 computer?
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facit
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Warum krähen Hähne - und Krähen nicht?
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What's this computer in the 1988 movie "Vampire's Kiss"?
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Was there a specific benefit to inverted (XOR) mouse cursors other than aesthetics?
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Why were floppy drives not any faster?
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Why do C to Z80 compilers produce poor code?
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Der Fahrende Ritter: what is the joke?
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Did computers come with circuit diagrams?
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"Quit all programs, and then restart your computer" in the Windows 95 "Illegal operation" dialog
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Does an ISA card have a fixed memory address?
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How did the ZX80 store both a useful program and screen memory?
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Why is the "jmp" instruction not working if I put data before it?
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Why do we have to make "peinlich" start with a capital letter and also end with -s in this sentence?
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Did Microsoft really reserve secret APIs in Windows?
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Why was segment register value scaled by such a small factor of 16 on i8086?
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How can I recover the contents from an Amiga HDD using modern Linux?
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Different way of saying "Feuer!"
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Use of the verb "bauen" without the preposition "an"
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Where is DOS stored in memory when a program starts?
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How was early randomness generated?
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Magnetic exposure to floppy disk damages file system and requires complete reformat?
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What prevents faster versions of old architectures from being created?
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Can the two CPUs in a Commodore 128 run at the same time?
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„bis Sonntag“: is Sunday included or excluded?
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Did 5.25" floppies undergo a change in magnetic coating?
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Saying that embodies "When you find one mistake, the second is not far"
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