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On “Ask HN: What are some great posts or articles about history of computing?”
…e great resources for a lot of the historical and technical aspects of things. I'd highly recommend both of them for looking at specific topics of how the computing hardware worked: - Marc's videos on old HP computers, link - Marc's videos on restoring some old IBM hardware, that includes a good bit of the history that went into them, link and link to this video - In fact just look at his playlists directly, link For Ken, I'd look at his chip teardowns and explorations, the AM2901 is on HN this very moment, link A lot of his articles dig into why the different chip technologies were made and fell out of favor eventually too. link…