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imoverclockedtoday at 2:44 AM1 replyview on HN

Time to find vulnerabilities!

I remember in the naughts, coming across a dos machine that was quite out of time… even for the university basement it was living in next to a pile of lead brick. Its only job was to run an instrument via an home-built ISA card and write data out to 5.25” floppies.

What uses would this code have in 2026?


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FarmerPotatotoday at 3:30 AM

To see what decisions they made. Like any historical document. Aim to understand the people of the time.