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you ever wonder why Amiga computers (from the 80s and 90s) have this weird tic? ( so you can hear it yourself.) turns out there's a really strange reason for

now here is a very unusual keyboard keyswitch. let's examine it closely... keycap removed it has 4 pins. the wires pass through a ferrite toroid. this key switch is a

here is an IBM EGA card from 1984. kinda boring, limited to 16 colors from a palette of 64...BUT did you know people wrote demos for it? this one is

ever wonder why the schematic symbol of a bipolar transistor looks the way it does? the two angled lines look particularly odd, but there is a fascinating historical reason for