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There was a reopen request for this question. Please help to identify presumably a piece of old computer equipment in a video My opinion on this is that it should not be reopened, since questions ...

Is there a procedure to disassemble ROMs with a header? While this is a reverse engineering question, it also concerns a very retro computer and there may be simply more expertise on your site.

Here's an answer I've got, the salient part of which is "Contact me for information". It appears that the author has not realized that there is no private message mechanism, nor notification ...

We currently have six “identify this” tags: identify-this-software identify-this-game identify-this-computer identify-this-card identify-this-peripheral identify-this-book But every once in a while, ...

They're not in the deleted questions or answers lists. How can they all disappear like that, even from my deleted questions? Has it happened to other people? Was this a system bug?

This is my reply. Why did you delete it? [ This answer is hidden. This answer was deleted and converted to a comment 9 days ago by wizzwizz4♦. ] I always assumed it was because it assembled the ...

This question is about Why did so many OS names end in "x?" [closed] and Why were there so many OSes that had the name "DOS" in them?. The questions are very similar, (but ...

We have three separate tags for the series of Windows releases collectively known as Windows 9x. I collected some statistics to assess whether they are more often used together or stand-alone: 36 ...

It’s that time of the year again! As we bid farewell to the year that's concluded and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year. As most of ...

I've been working on a short piece of 6502 assembly and I now have a working implementation. However, I think it would be useful to get some feedback from community members that are more experienced ...

There seems to me to have been a minor spate of close votes on old questions. The most recent example, prompting this meta post, is this question. I'm not really seeing the point of closing old ...

I think floppy-disk and floppy-drive have sufficiently intertwined scopes that there is little sense in distinguishing between them. Either a floppy disk or a floppy drive is useful primarily in the ...

Not asking for 3rd party URL shorteners. Just what works here. For example, I can shorten https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/a/455592/131624 down to just swe.stackexchange.com/a/455592 but ...

Or the windows notification facility, or something. I hate when comments go unanswered.

Due to the extreme backward compatibility of IBM mainframes, I think it can be harder to tell than for most other systems where to draw the line between retrocomputing questions and non-retrocomputing ...