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This question Why did Acorn use the 6502? is receiving close votes! I found this surprising, since my very similar question, Why did Sinclair choose the Z80 for its range of home computers?, was well-...

I had asked a question about the demonstrated capabilities of the pioneering Mark I Perceptron. While it generated significant interest from some of the experts, others considered it a bad question ...

It seems that most of the questions tagged here as atari-400 or atari-800 actually apply to multiple Atari 8-bit computer models. I propose that we introduce an atari-8-bit tag for questions that ...

In the last few days, we have had 3 different questions which have the basic structure of "please debug this program for me", followed by a lot of code. In one case over 600 lines, in ...

Computing history has long been part of our scope. Retrospectives – looking back at then, from the perspective of now – are an important part of historical discourse, and we often get people trying to ...

https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/a/29794/107 This answer has been flagged as not being an answer to the question, and it isn't. But as always on this site, it's a record of first-hand ...

I'm a bit puzzled, and it might be just a random coincidence, but a recent question about a book did get an almost instant downvote. Given, there is no close request, but to me the question does not ...

I've never seen this symbol next to 'performance' before. What does it mean? Was it something I did? And why is this question greyed out (I assume it's related.) I thought perhaps hovering over the ...

In StackExchange ElectricalEngineering there is the question: Were Vacuum Tube Computers made of Logic Gates? https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/704329/were-vacuum-tube-computers-made-of-...

So this question just got closed as off-topic, I looked at it because an answer had been flagged, and then answered myself because I realised that some software I use could help. I'm just curious to ...

I'm writing to introduce my software project strop. Like a compiler, it takes a function as input, and it emits assembly language that computes the given function. But unlike a compiler, the way it ...

Comments (on main) are not for extended discussion. What are comments? Comments are temporary "Post-It" notes left on a question or answer. They can be upvoted (but not downvoted) and ...

The question " Synchronising FOR - NEXT routines in C64 basic " was closed as being 'off-topic. This question does not appear to be about retrocomputing.'. This question is asking how to do ...

It’s that time of the year again! As we wave goodbye to last year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year. As most of you here might be ...

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