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A tricky Commodore PET repair: tracking down 6 1/2 bad chips (righto.com)
69 points by todsacerdoti 7 days ago | past | 24 comments
Undocumented 8086 instructions, explained by the microcode (righto.com)
3 points by thunderbong 19 days ago | past
Undocumented 8086 instructions, explained by the microcode (righto.com)
14 points by birdculture 19 days ago | past | 3 comments
Notes on the Pentium's microcode circuitry (righto.com)
183 points by leotravis10 20 days ago | past | 32 comments
A USB Interface to the "Mother of All Demos" Keyset (righto.com)
321 points by zdw 28 days ago | past | 86 comments
The Pentium contains a complicated circuit to multiply by three (righto.com)
374 points by Tomte 49 days ago | past | 153 comments
Two bits per transistor: high-density ROM in Intel's 8087 FPU (2018) (righto.com)
5 points by Syonyk 55 days ago | past
The Intel 1405: die photos of a shift register memory from 1970 (2014) (righto.com)
2 points by redbell 73 days ago | past
The origin and unexpected evolution of the word "mainframe" (righto.com)
160 points by todsacerdoti 78 days ago | past | 44 comments
Risky line printer music on a vintage IBM mainframe (2019) (righto.com)
4 points by CharlesW 86 days ago | past
Interesting BiCMOS circuits in the Pentium, reverse-engineered (righto.com)
57 points by DamonHD 89 days ago | past | 14 comments
Reverse-engineering a carry-lookahead adder in the Pentium (righto.com)
69 points by DamonHD 3 months ago | past | 14 comments
The origin of the cargo cult metaphor (righto.com)
291 points by zdw 3 months ago | past | 678 comments
Reverse Engineering the Constants in the Pentium FPU (righto.com)
151 points by mef 3 months ago | past | 23 comments
555 timer teardown: inside the world's most popular IC (2016) (righto.com)
6 points by wizardforhire 3 months ago | past
Intel's $475M error: the silicon behind the Pentium division bug (righto.com)
378 points by gslin 3 months ago | past | 116 comments
Mining Bitcoin with Pencil and Paper (2014) (righto.com)
2 points by lispybanana 4 months ago | past
Antenna Diodes in the Pentium Processor (righto.com)
266 points by chmaynard 4 months ago | past | 51 comments
Apple iPhone Charger Teardown (2012) (righto.com)
1 point by tosh 5 months ago | past
Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day (2014) (righto.com)
13 points by jakey_bakey 6 months ago | past | 4 comments
Wealth Distribution in the United States (righto.com)
84 points by ssklash 6 months ago | past | 120 comments
The Globus INK: a mechanical navigation computer for Soviet spaceflight (2023) (righto.com)
193 points by dangle1 6 months ago | past | 25 comments
Reverse-engineering a three-axis attitude indicator from the F-4 fighter plane (righto.com)
212 points by zdw 6 months ago | past | 65 comments
Inside a Ferroelectric RAM Chip (righto.com)
141 points by chmaynard 6 months ago | past | 74 comments
The Pentium as a Navajo Weaving (righto.com)
484 points by GavinAnderegg 7 months ago | past | 84 comments
The guidance system and computer of the Minuteman III nuclear missile (righto.com)
272 points by magnat 8 months ago | past | 175 comments
[dupe] Reverse-Engineering the Mechanical Bendix Central Air Data Computer (righto.com)
1 point by XnoiVeX 8 months ago | past | 1 comment
Reverse engineering XC2064, the first FPGA (2020) (righto.com)
72 points by vinnyvichy 8 months ago | past | 13 comments
Reverse engineering the 59-pound printer onboard the Space Shuttle (righto.com)
340 points by chmaynard 8 months ago | past | 96 comments
"Maxwell's equations of software" examined (2008) (righto.com)
75 points by behnamoh 9 months ago | past | 36 comments

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