The scope of ancient and antqiue computers was broader than what I owned back in the early 1980s. If you want to relive the past, then you’ll have to explore options other than the Radio Shack and IBM computers I used.
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March 3, 2010I Want An Old Computer! Part IIMarch 1, 2010I Want An Old Computer! Part IWant to relive digital life when a 180KB floppy disk was the most storage you’d ever need? Why, eBay stands ready and willing to sate your 1980 computer desires. February 26, 2010KB v. Kb and even KibA byte was once a straightforward thing. A KB was 1,024 bytes and the world continued to spin on its access. Not so anymore. February 24, 2010When 2 + 2 = 5The joke goes that 2 + 2 = 5 for sufficiently large values of 2. It’s not really a joke, though; you’re computer can prove it for you.
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February 22, 2010A Facebook of FoolsAre most of the people who use Facebook really that gullible, or is it just my little clutch of Facebook friends? February 19, 2010It’s Adobe FaultA lot of hay was made that Apple’s new iPad doesn’t support Adobe Flash in its web browser. Steve Jobs commented off-hand that the reason for the lack of support was all the bugs in Flash. I think he’s on to something. February 17, 2010The Win7 UpgradeA Facebook friend recently posed this question:
February 15, 2010Thank You, GoogleGoogle makes a ton of money, basically owning all of the Internet’s advertising. Still, we get a lot of free stuff for that money.
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February 10, 2010A Nerdy Post on ProgramsHere I go! Off the deep end! Prepare to flee in terror from this blog post, because I’m going to be talking about how programs work on a computer. Not how to work a program, but what happens when the operating system takes a program from the computer’s mass storage system and tosses that code into computer memory. February 8, 2010This Site’s Hack AdventureIt appears that I’ve plugged the leak that was causing this blog to be hacked. I hope. |