🤔 Ah yes, the thrilling escapade of a 40-year-old chip's bit shifter, because nothing screams relevance like dissecting ancient silicon. 🕵️♂️ Let's dive deep into the arcane world of 1980s math coprocessors, because apparently, someone thought this needed a resurrection. 🤷♂️
https://www.righto.com/2020/05/die-analysis-of-8087-math-coprocessors.html #chipshifting #1980stechnology #mathcoprocessors #siliconhistory #technostalgia #retrocomputing #HackerNews #ngated
Die analysis of the 8087 math coprocessor's fast bit shifter
Floating-point numbers are very useful for scientific programming, but early microprocessors only supported integers directly. 1 Although...
🥱 Ah yes, another riveting tale of ancient silicon sorcery where enthusiasts scribbled letters to each other—because who needed the internet, right? 🤓 Let's all pretend we're in 1968, ignoring that Altair's "revolution" is now just a dusty footnote. 🖥️🚀
https://technicshistory.com/2025/04/06/microcomputers-the-first-wave-responding-to-altair/ #ancienttechnology #siliconhistory #retrocomputing #hackernews #nostalgia #HackerNews #ngated
Microcomputers – The First Wave: Responding to Altair
[This post is part of “A Bicycle for the Mind.” The complete series can be found here.] Don Tarbell: A Life in Personal Computing In August 1968, Stephen Gray, sole proprietor of the Amateur Comput…
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