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  1. Ah yes, a gripping tale of corporate rise and fall told through the lens of #obsolete technology—because nothing screams "captivating" like old computer chips and #aerospace #trivia 🚀💾. Ken Shirriff's blog: come for the IC reverse engineering, stay for the riveting history of things no one asked for. 📚🔍
    righto.com/2026/03/ibm-4-pi-co #corporatehistory #tech #KenShirriff #reverseengineering #HackerNews #ngated

  2. Ah yes, a gripping tale of corporate rise and fall told through the lens of #obsolete technology—because nothing screams "captivating" like old computer chips and #aerospace #trivia 🚀💾. Ken Shirriff's blog: come for the IC reverse engineering, stay for the riveting history of things no one asked for. 📚🔍
    righto.com/2026/03/ibm-4-pi-co #corporatehistory #tech #KenShirriff #reverseengineering #HackerNews #ngated

  3. Ah yes, a gripping tale of corporate rise and fall told through the lens of #obsolete technology—because nothing screams "captivating" like old computer chips and #aerospace #trivia 🚀💾. Ken Shirriff's blog: come for the IC reverse engineering, stay for the riveting history of things no one asked for. 📚🔍
    righto.com/2026/03/ibm-4-pi-co #corporatehistory #tech #KenShirriff #reverseengineering #HackerNews #ngated

  4. Ah yes, a gripping tale of corporate rise and fall told through the lens of #obsolete technology—because nothing screams "captivating" like old computer chips and #aerospace #trivia 🚀💾. Ken Shirriff's blog: come for the IC reverse engineering, stay for the riveting history of things no one asked for. 📚🔍
    righto.com/2026/03/ibm-4-pi-co #corporatehistory #tech #KenShirriff #reverseengineering #HackerNews #ngated

  5. Ah yes, a gripping tale of corporate rise and fall told through the lens of #obsolete technology—because nothing screams "captivating" like old computer chips and #aerospace #trivia 🚀💾. Ken Shirriff's blog: come for the IC reverse engineering, stay for the riveting history of things no one asked for. 📚🔍
    righto.com/2026/03/ibm-4-pi-co #corporatehistory #tech #KenShirriff #reverseengineering #HackerNews #ngated

  6. 🤓 Ken Shirriff's blog is back with another thrilling installment of "Things No One Asked For," this time diving into the prefetch queue of a processor from the Reagan era. 🎉 Because, clearly, what the world was missing is a deep dive into 16-byte queues from 1985 that even your toaster has outpaced. 🚀
    righto.com/2025/05/386-prefetc #KenShirriff #ThingsNoOneAskedFor #ProcessorHistory #RetroTech #1985Tech #HackerNews #ngated

  7. The Convoluted Way Intel’s 386 Implemented its Registers - The fact that modern-day x86 processors still pretty much support the same operati... - hackaday.com/2025/05/05/the-co #reverseengineering #classichacks #kenshirriff #x86

  8. 16 Kbit DRAM Gives Up Its Secrets - [Ken Shirriff] is looking inside chips again. This time, the subject is the MK4116... - hackaday.com/2023/09/26/16-kbi #retrocomputing #kenshirriff #dram

  9. String Operations the Hard(ware) Way - One of the interesting features of the 8086 back in 1978 was the provision for “st... - hackaday.com/2023/04/07/string #retrocomputing #kenshirriff

  10. Can You Hear Me Now? Lunar Edition - Despite what it looks like in the movies, it is hard to communicate with astronaut... - hackaday.com/2022/05/16/can-yo #kenshirriff #apollo #space

  11. The Apollo Digital Ranging System: More Than Meets The Eye - If you haven’t seen [Ken Shirriff]’s teardowns and reverse engineering expeditions... - hackaday.com/2022/04/25/the-ap #kenshirriff #rangefinder #radiohacks #apollo #space #radar #nasa #jpl

  12. Apollo Shift Register is Discrete - We’re unabashed fans of [Ken Shirriff] here at Hackaday, and his latest post about... - hackaday.com/2021/06/19/apollo #shiftregister #kenshirriff #teardown #apollo #space #nasa #dtl

  13. What’s Inside An FPGA? Ken Shirriff Has (Again) The Answer - FPGAs are somewhat the IPv6 of integrated circuits — they’ve been around longer than you might thi... - hackaday.com/2020/09/21/whats- #reverseengineering #chipdecapping #kenshirriff #bitstream #decapping #hardware #xilinx #fpga #die

  14. Ken Shirriff Unfolds a Nuclear Missile Guidance Computer with Impressive Memory - Longtime followers of [Ken Shirriff’s] work are accustomed to say asking “Where does he get such won... more: hackaday.com/2020/03/25/ken-sh #computerhacks #titanmissile #kenshirriff #corememory #teardown #titanii #icbm