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11 questions linked to/from Is computing history inherently on-topic?
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Are history of software, technical concepts or other not touchable computing-related things on-topic? [duplicate]
Do we want to have questions involving history of software? What about software development i.e. retro programming languages and compilers etc? Should we restrict any question types in this topic?
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Is this site heading in the right direction?
Wikipedia defines retrocomputing as simple as
Retrocomputing is the use of older computer hardware and software in modern times.
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Browsing through the list of current questions ...
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What do you think of the proposed Computing History site?
I was looking through Area 51 recently and I discovered the Computing History proposal.
Well, not exactly... I already knew about it (and followed it) before this site launched. The topics are so ...
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Can we do something to discourage ‘armchair history’ answers?
Every once in a while, when someone asks a history question, there is a flurry of attempts to answer the question without referring to any supporting historical evidence. At best, such answers are ...
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How to decide whether to post a question on retrocomputing or on some other Stack Exchange website
Other Stack Exchange websites cover a wide range of possible questions one can ask about computers:
software recommendations: https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/
questions about running/using ...
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Since we accept at least some computing history questions, could we also accept questions about more recent, 21st-century history?
(I know that there are approximately 10000 posts here with essentially the same topic. I wanted to explain my position and to put forward some ideas about changing the rules. If nothing happens as a ...
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Are questions about historical web APIs on topic?
After rene suggested our site for "historical curiosity" questions on Meta Stack Overflow's It's time to bury [digg], I started wondering whether Digg's API would be on-topic for Retrocomputing.
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Are retrospective / modern-perspective questions on-topic?
Computing history has long been part of our scope. Retrospectives – looking back at then, from the perspective of now – are an important part of historical discourse, and we often get people trying to ...
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Is the [history] tag meaningful?
I noticed that we have a history tag, described thus:
For questions concerning the history of computers, digital electronics, hardware manufacturers and software developers.
This seems awfully ...
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Is the history of companies/people related to computing on-topic?
Do we also want to support questions that are not about hardware or software, but about a company or person that was important in the history of computing?
For example one could ask stuff about the ...
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Repeated Questions Pondering Around a Topic
(caveat: Although the trigger here are questions of a single user, this is not about him or the things he want to learn)
Over the last weeks a multitude of questions have been asked pondering around ...
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