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1 gallon is 0.832674 gallons. Or 1 gallon is 1.20095 gallons.

There are some per-model stats from Germany issued at the end of 1993 (so a few months before Commodore went tits up)[1], and they have ~1 million A500s, and ~100 thousand A1200s (…

That’s because with most modern MacBook touchpads (bar the Neo) the touchpad never really moves much. It’s all force detection and a haptic feedback thingy. If the system crashes, …

Implementing mouse cursors as a hardware sprite isn’t that uncommon for 2D accelerated graphics, albeit later than on the Amiga. Something like an ATI Mach32 has one for example. A…

I think the article is sorta wrong about the sound setup, the Mega Drive I does have a sound input on the expansion port, and mixes it into its sound output. Otherwise stuff like R…

Looking at pictures, it appears cameraless iPhones tend to have backs without camera holes / lumps, so some custom work is involved beyond just removing the module. Though there’s …

I’m not sure if Sony has been pushing their video disc formats with PlayStations for a while. PS4 Pro was the “4K” upgrade over PS4, but didn’t support UHD Blu-Ray. And there’s bee…

Closing the online store for older systems simultaneously with announcing the dropping of physical media leaves an interesting question for the future. Even if you’ve never bought …

Well, I guess that answers the question of whether the PS6 will have an awkward snap on disc drive.

Seiko can cover a fairly large group of companies, Seiko Epson is a particular subgroup of it (now somewhat detached from the main group).

Bit of hindsight bias there, DAB was first developed in the mid 1990s, ubiquitous fast wireless IP in everyone’s pockets is at least a decade, perhaps nearer to 20 years in the fut…

Doesn’t RDS mostly solve that for the most common case where frequency changes becomes an issue (car radios).

As far as I know the medium wave services aren’t transmitted from the same antenna as Radio 4 LW, they have separate antenna, albeit with one of them (5 Live) doubling up as one of…

It’s interesting that the gate arrays are supplied by Seiko, and the only known MCGA systems apart from IBM are from Epson. The bit of Seiko that made the gate arrays appears to be…

The article mentions that it is brought out to the connector, multiplexed with the monitor ID pins.

The Disk System RAM Adapter plugged into the cartridge port on a Famicom. The Famicom 15 pin expansion port is just a fancy joystick port (the console is otherwise limited to a pai…

It's basically a case of hardware acceleration. Most games consoles and fancier micros have some of dedicated graphics chip that handles the heavy lifting of generating graphics. S…

Roughly how many varieties of module were used for a full 604 system? I suspect quite a few as other "modular" systems in the transistor era like the later IBM Standard Modular Sys…

DOS barely has any concept of processes, let alone threads. So it’ll all be very do it yourself. Of course with everything running in ring 0, there’s not much that’s going to get i…

From somewhere in the middle of Nvidia’s endless press waffle: “The RTX Spark superchip features an NVIDIA Blackwell RTX GPU with 6,144 CUDA cores and fifth-generation Tensor Cores…

I suspect Windows 2000 (and NT based stuff in general) is too near to modern Windows to be (officially) released. DOS is long dead, but modern Windows still uses the NT kernel and …

Yes, Microsoft had established themselves as supplier of BASIC interpreters to most of the US microcomputer manufacturers. There initial contact with IBM was to provide a version o…

You wouldn’t be getting a protection fault when protection isn’t enabled. I should also note this error is the return code for MS-DOS’s memory management functions (such as int 21h…

MS-DOS doesn’t have memory protection, so another option is that the running program[1] or something like a TSR or driver could have corrupted the headers. [1] I guess in a modern …

The early 2005 PowerBook G4 was the last pro notebook with DDR surely, as the MacBook Pro your referring to seems to use DDR4.