“Marc's videos on restoring some old IBM hardware, that includes a good bit of the history that went into them”
Restoration of old IBM hardware with history
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While much more on the technical side of things, both Ken Shirriff and Curious Marc are 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 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