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After spending most of the past decade without a decent computer, all laptops with GPUs more able at toasting bread than proper gaming, I finally cracked the spare Bitcoin piggy-bank and built my d…
The first 8-bit microprocessor, the TMX 1795 had the same architecture as the 8008 but was built months before the 8008. Never sold commerci...
The IBM 1401 mainframe computer was announced in 1959 and by the mid-1960s had become the best-selling computer , extremely popular with me...
Microservers and the motivations for microservers have been around for years. I first blogged about them back in 2008 ( Cooperative, Expendable, Microslice, Servers: Low-Cost, Low-Power Servers for Internet-Scale Services ) and even Intel has entered the market with Atom but it’s the ARM instruction set architecture…
The last 100 seconds of 8088 MPH sound very different to the rest of the demo. The end tune is actually a 4-channel Amiga MOD file (which you can download here ) composed by coda . Playing back a MOD through PC speaker on such a slow machine has never been done before. Here is how we did it.
Landmark advance to usher in new era of ultrafast communications
96 MacBook Pro’s in a single Rack space We had a need to introduce 96 MacBook Pro’s for our product testing. Our requirements included Retina displays, small form factor, low powe…
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Researchers at ASU have proven that semiconductor lasers are capable of emitting over the full visible color spectrum, which is necessary to produce a white laser.
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IBM's mainframes of the 1960s are based on an interesting technology - Standard Modular System cards or SMS cards. These cards, created in ...
There are at least two good ways to make a bad Ethernet cable. One can start with badly-made bulk cable -- this seems to be the usual explanation for Chinese-made Ethernet cables -- or one can take good cable and do a terrible job of putting connectors on it. Some types of connectors -- a crimp BNC, for example -- are…
The world of Apple II “cracking” has always held an interesting fascination for me – the thinking involved, the magic of tracing programs, and of course the “crack screens&#…
I noticed a "bug" in the way Audi handles its Cruise Control options. Cruise control is only meant to be used once you drive "30 kilometers per hour or more". …
No need for color correction—Harvard physicists’ flat optics, using nanotechnology, gets it right the first time
Lots of exciting new things were announced at the latest Apple WWDC this week, but hidden amongst the big announcements was an extension of something that's been bothering me for a while.
I’ve seen the Mill CPU come up a number of times — maybe because I subscribed to their updates and so I get emails about their talks. They’re getting a bunch of buzz, but every t…
The microSD ware for January 2010 was not an incidental post. It is actually snapshot of a much longer forensic investigation to find the ground truth behind some irregular Kingston memory cards.
