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Inside Intel's first product: the 3101 RAM chip held just 64 bits
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Intel's first product was not a processor, but a memory chip: the 3101 1 RAM chip, released in April 1969. This chip held just 64 bits ...
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Bitcoin mining on a vintage Xerox Alto: very slow at 1.5 hashes/second
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I've been restoring a Xerox Alto minicomputer from the 1970s and figured it would be interesting to see if it could mine bitcoins. I cod...
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Improvements to the Xerox Alto Mandelbrot drop runtime from 1 hour to 9 minutes
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Last week I wrote a Mandelbrot set program for the Xerox Alto, which took an hour to generate the fractal. The point of this project was to...
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One-hour Mandelbrot: Creating a fractal on the vintage Xerox Alto
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I wrote a short program to generate the Mandelbrot set on the Xerox Alto, a groundbreaking minicomputer from the 1970s. The program, in...
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Reverse engineering the 76477 "Space Invaders" sound effect chip from die photos
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Remember the old video game Space Invaders? Some of its sound effects were provided by a chip called the 76477 Complex Sound Generation ch...
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