IT in 2022 is still not as good as it should be.
The state of Information Technology in 2022 is not as good as it should be. A lot of computer installations are running Windows 10 and do not even work.
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Obscure retro hardware and operating systems. A look into the past.
Some very interesting old examples of computing technology in the Soviet bloc. This is a very interesting documentary.
Read MoreTRS-80 Computers were the best.
The Radio Shack TRS-80 computer shown here is the first computer I ever used. It has a massive 4K of RAM, upgradeable to 16K, a cassette tape drive using standard audio cassettes with programs on them such as games and utilities as well as a monochrome monitor and of course…
Read MoreReminiscing on Doom and older computers in the modern age.
Just saw a cool Let’s Play Doom video on Youtube that features E2M4 and the guy playing it is like he is playing it for the first time, it is incredible to watch the game played is if it is being played for the first time instead of always watching…
Read MoreHP Elitedesk 800 computers are annoying.
These computers are very annoying to setup. You have a VGA monitor connected and there is sometimes nothing displayed on the screen until Windows boots up. But if a Display Port to VGA adapter is plugged in, then you can get a picture. Why does this happen? And the VTx…
Read MoreAnother nostalgia posting. Some pictures of very old computing treasures from history.
Old AOL login window. Dialing up to an America Online system to get connected to the Internet. The old OS/2 Warp operating system from IBM. This was a very good operating system back in the day. Windows `95 on floppy disks. This would take a very long time to install…
Read MoreWestcliff High School for Girls Academy switches to OpenSUSE KDE desktops instead of Windows.
The Westcliff High School for Girls Academy has switched from Windows on their workstations to the KDE Plasma desktop. This means that they are avoiding the licensing hassles of using Windows and they are adopting a free and open operating system that will provide the students with a desktop environment…
Read MoreProblems installing Ubuntu 13.04 and how punched cards worked in the olden days of computing.
You might have heard of the trouble I have had with the Ubuntu 13.04 Linux distribution, but if you have not then I will tell you what is going on. The Live DVD of Ubuntu 13.04 Gnome Edition will not install. I run the installer and get up to the…
Read MoreFedora Core 17 not polished enough and mobile computing revolution taking over from desktop computers?
I have abandoned the Fedora Core 17 distribution, the me-tv software is not available and I could not get the source code to compile. That program worked perfectly on Linux Mint 12, but when I installed the Linux Mint 13 distribution it would not work properly at all. Presently I…
Read MoreThe old computers that led us into the computing revolution. The 10,000 dollar PDP-8.
This is the PDP-8 computer. This beast had 4 Kilobytes of RAM and was quite the purchase back in the day. You could program in FORTRAN on this machine, entering code with a teletype input. The more powerful PDP-9 had twice the RAM, 8 Kilobytes to be precise and cost…
Read MoreHow computers are portrayed in movies and television.
The way that computer interfaces are portrayed in the movies and television shows has always been rather fanciful, with the computer users navigating a Graphical User Interface by typing madly on the keyboard. And the impossible CSI computers that can zoom into a 360p resolution video and see a persons…
Read MoreThe machines that sparked the computer age. From Enigma to Colossus.
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/technology/of-codebreakers-and-mechanical-giants-56949.html [theepochtimes.com] The world war was fought not just with bullets and artillery, but also with computers, creating and cracking even more complex codes that were beyond the human mind`s capability to break. The German Enigma machine was the machine that created the most complex code of the war and…
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