Energizing a vacuum-tube flip-flop module from a 1948 IBM system #VintageTech #Electronics #RetroComputing
Examining circuit boards from the Space Shuttle's I/O Processor #Electronics #Space #RetroTech
The adder at the heart of Intel's 8087 floating-point chip #Hardware #RetroComputing #Engineering
Powering up a module from the IBM 604: an electronic calculator from 1948 #VintageTech #Electronics #History
Microcode inside the Intel 8087 floating-point chip: register exchange #Hardware #RetroComputing #Microcode
Reverse engineering circuitry in a Spacelab computer from 1980 #RetroComputing #Electronics #SpaceTech
The electromechanical angle computer inside the B-52 bomber's star tracker #Electronics #VintageTech #Aerospace
The rise and fall of IBM's 4 Pi aerospace computers: an illustrated history #Computers #History #Tech
Instruction decoding in the Intel 8087 floating-point chip #Hardware #RetroComputing #CPU
Notes on the Intel 8086 processor's arithmetic-logic unit #Hardware #CPU #RetroTech
Conditions in the Intel 8087 floating-point chip's microcode #Hardware #RetroComputing #Microcode
The stack circuitry of the Intel 8087 floating point chip, reverse-engineered #ReverseEngineering #ComputerHistory #Hardware
Unusual circuits in the Intel 386's standard cell logic #Electronics #VintageTech #ComputerHistory
Solving the NYTimes Pips puzzle with a constraint solver #Puzzles #Algorithms #ConstraintProgramming
A Navajo weaving of an integrated circuit: the 555 timer #Electronics #Art #History
Why do people keep writing about the imaginary compound Cr2Gr2Te6? #Science #Research #Materials
Here be dragons: Preventing static damage, latchup, and metastability in the 386 #Electronics #VintageTech #ComputerHistory
A CT scanner reveals surprises inside the 386 processor's ceramic package #Hardware #RetroComputing #ReverseEngineering
How to reverse engineer an analog chip: the TDA7000 FM radio receiver #Electronics #ReverseEngineering #Radio
Reverse engineering the mysterious Up-Data Link Test Set from Apollo #RetroTech #Space #Engineering
Inside the Apollo "8-Ball" FDAI (Flight Director / Attitude Indicator) #SpaceExploration #VintageTech #Engineering
Reverse engineering the 386 processor's prefetch queue circuitry #ReverseEngineering #Hardware #CPU
The absurdly complicated circuitry for the 386 processor's registers #Hardware #RetroComputing #Electronics
A tricky Commodore PET repair: tracking down 6 1/2 bad chips #RetroComputing #Electronics #Repair
Notes on the Pentium's microcode circuitry #Hardware #RetroComputing #CPU