Strange chip: Teardown of a vintage IBM token ring controller

  Hacker News   ·   2 days ago

Booting the IBM 1401: How a 1959 punch-card computer loads a program

  Hacker News   ·   1 week ago

Teardown of a quartz crystal oscillator and the tiny IC inside

  Hacker News   ·   1 week ago

Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day (2014)

  Hacker News   ·   2 weeks ago

A one-bit processor explained: reverse-engineering the vintage MC14500B

  Hacker News   ·   3 weeks ago

Reverse-engineering an early calculator chip with four-phase logic

  Hacker News   ·   2 months ago

Reverse engineering RAM storage in early Texas Instruments calculator chips

  Hacker News   ·   3 months ago

Reverse-engineering the classic MK4116 16-kilobit DRAM chip

  Hacker News   ·   4 months ago

Reverse-engineering the carry-lookahead circuit in the Intel 8008 processor

  Hacker News   ·   4 months ago

Inside the stacked RAM modules used in the Apple III

  Hacker News   ·   4 months ago

How the bootstrap load made the historic Intel 8008 processor possible

  Hacker News   ·   4 months ago

Cells are fast and crowded places

  Hacker News   ·   5 months ago

HP Nanoprocessor part II: Reverse-engineering the circuits from the masks

  Hacker News   ·   5 months ago

Reverse-engineering the first FPGA chip, the XC2064

  Hacker News   ·   6 months ago

Inside the HP Nanoprocessor

  Hacker News   ·   6 months ago

Reverse-engineering the 8086's Arithmetic/Logic Unit from die photos

  Hacker News   ·   6 months ago

How the 8086 processor handles power and clock internally

  Hacker News   ·   7 months ago

Reverse-engineering the Intel 8086's instruction register

  Hacker News   ·   7 months ago

Processor, tiny charge pumps create a negative voltage

  Hacker News   ·   7 months ago

The Intel 8086 processor's registers: from chip to transistors

  Hacker News   ·   8 months ago

Die shrink: How Intel scaled down the 8086 processor

  Hacker News   ·   8 months ago

A look at the die of the 8086 processor

  Hacker News   ·   9 months ago

Die analysis of the 8087 math coprocessor's fast bit shifter

  Hacker News   ·   9 months ago

Extracting ROM constants from the 8087 math coprocessor's die

  Hacker News   ·   10 months ago

Reverse engineering the 76477 “Space Invaders” sound chip from die photos (2017)

  Hacker News   ·   10 months ago

Tiny transformer inside: Decapping an isolated power transfer chip

  Hacker News   ·   10 months ago

Reverse-engineering the audio chip in the Nintendo Game Boy Color

  Hacker News   ·   10 months ago

Apple iPhone charger teardown (2012)

  Hacker News   ·   10 months ago

The most common chip you've never heard of (2014)

  Hacker News   ·   11 months ago

A circuit board from the Saturn V rocket, reverse-engineered and explained

  Hacker News   ·   11 months ago

Repairing a vintage 40-kilovolt xenon lamp igniter

  Hacker News   ·   11 months ago

Inside a Titan missile guidance computer

  Hacker News   ·   12 months ago

Looking inside a vintage Soviet TTL logic integrated circuit

  Hacker News   ·   12 months ago

The core memory inside a Saturn V rocket's computer

  Hacker News   ·   12 months ago

Inside the digital clock from a Soyuz spacecraft

  Hacker News   ·   1 year ago

TROS: IBM mainframes stored microcode in transformers

  Hacker News   ·   1 year ago

IBM, sonic delay lines, and the history of the 80×24 display

  Hacker News   ·   1 year ago

“Special register groups” invaded computer dictionaries for decades

  Hacker News   ·   1 year ago

A Visit to the Large Scale Systems Museum

  Hacker News   ·   1 year ago

A computer built from NOR gates: inside the Apollo Guidance Computer

  Hacker News   ·   1 year ago

Reverse-engineering precision op amps from a 1969 analog computer

  Hacker News   ·   1 year ago

Apollo Guidance Computer switching power supply works after 50 years

  Hacker News   ·   2 years ago

Bitcoin mining on an Apollo Guidance Computer: 10.3 seconds per hash

  Hacker News   ·   2 years ago