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(Photos: Computers of yesteryear)

(Photos: Computers of yesteryear)Nice.. i have an IBM Powerstation 340 sittin on the shelf:)Great memoriesI have an Epson QX-10/16, CP/M OS that still works fine with all its programs including the original "Valdocs," and many others from Peach Software and Epson.I'm Disappointed....No Microsoft BoB? No Windows ME?? No...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Mainframes, Servers, E6B, photograph, PDP-11/73, disk, computer, mainframe

Discussion threads 2007-08-20

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The 10 biggest moments in IT history

Missing: Tim Berners-Lee?The Mouse, and the GUI ...... without the invention of the mouse or the GUI/WYSIWYG there would not be as many users as there are today, and I would hazard a guess that it would be restricted to business applications like accounting, and Data Analysis.LudoRE: The 10...

Tags: Mice, Strategy, Operating systems, GUI, PARC User Interface, mouse, Microsoft Corp., IT History, Xerox PARC, operating system, IBM Corp., information technology

Discussion threads 2009-09-21

The Wall Street Journal shows the limits of its HDTV knowledge

The Wall Street Journal shows the limits of its HDTV knowledgeI'm in the market for a flat panel ... ... but I'm really trying to hold off for OLED ... neither Plasma, DLP Projection, or LCD can compare to the quality of CRT, only OLED comes close, and if I'm...

Tags: Monitors & displays, knowledge, organic light-emitting diode, HDTV

Discussion threads 2009-07-01

Energizer 2X Induction Charge Station for Wii

Now that Wii MotionPlus is already on store shelves, many existing Wii remote chargers are quickly becoming obsolete. Sure, removing the tiny attachment so that your Wii remote can properly charge sounds simple enough, but if you're a big proponent of the rubber jackets, removing that and MotionPlus can...

Tags: Engineering, Nintendo Wii, Wii Remote, Wii MotionPlus, rubber jacket

Product reviews 2009-06-26

Energizer 4X Charging System for Wii

We have looked at just about every Wii controller charging device ever constructed. From charging plates to docks, it's safe to say we've seen our fair share. We're now starting to see other companies throw their hats into the ring, including offerings from Energizer-branded PDP products. The...

Tags: Engineering, Energizer, Nintendo Wii, battery

Product reviews 2009-05-26

Gallery: The evolution of the PC

The The National Museum of Computing's PC Gallery in London gives a look at the 44-year history of personal computers - from the PDP-8 and Commodore PET, to the Apple Newton and iPhone. by Andy Smith

Tags: PC, Hardware, PCs, desktops, history, Andy Smith

Image galleries 2009-05-13

Panasonic TC-P50X1

Photo gallery: Panasonic TC-P50X1The capability of a TV to reproduce a dark shade of black is the number-one criteria for awarding a good picture quality score here at CNET. Often better blacks dictate higher prices, but in the case of Panasonic's newest line of entry-level plasmas, which includes...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Panasonic TC-P50X1, Panasonic

Product reviews 2009-04-22

From Chapter Four: The Unix and Open source Culture

This is the 41st excerpt from the second book in the Defen series: BIT: Business Information Technology: Foundations, Infrastructure, and Culture Roots (2) In its present form this commitment to publication and peer review, originally derived from the core academic and scientific approach giving rise to the science...

Tags: Noorda, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2009-03-13

Panasonic TC-P50S1

Photo gallery: Panasonic TC-PS1 seriesFor HDTV shoppers who recognize that burn-in and product lifespan, two bugaboos that have plagued the public perception of plasma TVs since their introduction, are largely not worth worrying about today, one potential hurdle on the path to plasma remains: power consumption. Plasma has...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Monitors & displays, Panasonic TC-PS1, Panasonic, TC-PS1 series

Product reviews 2009-03-11

Panasonic TC-P46S1

Photo gallery: Panasonic TC-PS1 seriesFor HDTV shoppers who recognize that burn-in and product lifespan, two bugaboos that have plagued the public perception of plasma TVs since their introduction, are largely not worth worrying about today, one potential hurdle on the path to plasma remains: power consumption. Plasma has...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Monitors & displays, Panasonic TC-PS1, Panasonic, TC-PS1 series

Product reviews 2009-03-11

Panasonic TC-P42S1

Photo gallery: Panasonic TC-PS1 seriesFor HDTV shoppers who recognize that burn-in and product lifespan, two bugaboos that have plagued the public perception of plasma TVs since their introduction, are largely not worth worrying about today, one potential hurdle on the path to plasma remains: power consumption. Plasma has...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Monitors & displays, Panasonic TC-PS1, Panasonic, TC-PS1 series

Product reviews 2009-03-11

Tax Refund Special: Home theater

If you wind up with the average household tax refund this year, you can set up a nice little home theater for around $2,500. Here's how I would configure it with that budget. HDTV ...

Tags: NetFlix Inc., Home Theater, Blu-ray, Kuro PDP-5020FD, Home Entertainment, Taxes, Free Trade, Personal Finance, Tv & Home Theater, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Financial Planning, Finance, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2009-02-11

Rumor: Pioneer is getting out of TV business

Widely regarded as producing some of the best plasma TVs on the market, Pioneer has nonetheless struggled as the HDTV landscape has moved more and more towards LCDs. Now rumors are floating around the Internet that the company will be exiting the TV business altogether, no doubt being influenced by...

Tags: Panasonic, Plasma, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Monitors & Displays, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Hardware, Components, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2009-02-07

CES 2009: World's thinnest plasma is 8.8mm thick [day 3]

Panasonic has taken the crown again for world's thinnest plasma with their 1/3-in. thick NeoPDP HDTV: This recently-developed NeoPDP technology has been incorporated into two types of PDPs: a super high-efficiency 42-inch PDP "that achieves triple luminance efficiency while reducing the power consumption...

Tags: Panel, Panasonic, Power Consumption, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Components, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-01-08

Energizer Power & Play Charging Station (Wii)

Performance Design Products, which is simply known as PDP, recently licensed the Energizer brand to slap on its line of Power & Play Charging Systems for the Sony PS3, Microsoft Xbox 360, and Nintendo Wii. Indeed, the Energizer brand should give these chargers some added visibility in the market place....

Tags: Engineering, Energizer, Nintendo Wii, Play Charging, battery, Play Charging System

Product reviews 2008-10-30

Energizer Power & Play Charging System (Xbox 360)

Performance Design Products, which is simply known as PDP, recently licensed the Energizer brand to slap on its line of Power & Play Charging Systems for the Sony PS3, Microsoft Xbox 360, and Nintendo Wii.The model reviewed here, the Energizer Power & Play Charging System for Xbox 360, looks very...

Tags: Game players, Microsoft Xbox 360, Microsoft Xbox, Energizer, Play Charging System, Play Charging

Product reviews 2008-10-24

Energizer Power & Play Charging System (PlayStation 3)

Performance Design Products, which is simply known as PDP, recently licensed the Energizer brand to slap on its line of Power and Play Charging systems for the Sony PS3, Microsoft Xbox 360, and Nintendo Wii. Indeed, the Energizer brand should give these chargers some added visibility in the marketplace. The...

Tags: Game players, Sony Playstation, Energizer, Sony PlayStation 3, Play Charging, Play Charging System

Product reviews 2008-10-24

Sony Bravia KDL-52XBR6

Sony has always reserved its best features and highest performance for its "XBR"-branded HDTVs, and this year there's an unprecedented three series of Sony sets bearing the moniker. The most-expensive is the XBR8 series, with LED backlighting, followed by the XBR7 series, with different styling and supposedly improved video processing....

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, most-expensive, Sony Corp., XBR6, Sony KDL-52XBR6, TV

Product reviews 2008-10-08

Pioneer Elite Kuro PRO-111FD

Pioneer markets its Elite lineup of plasma TVs to appeal to the hard-core home theater enthusiast, and that means pricing these panels above and beyond just about anything else. The enthusiast who can afford one, however, can rest assured that the 50-inch PRO-111FD performs above and beyond anything else on...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Monitors & displays, PRO-111FD, HDTV

Product reviews 2008-09-30

From Chapter Two: The appliance computing culture

From Chapter Two: The appliance computing cultureDefinitionsI don't know if there is any official definition for "application appliance" out there, but you are using it differently than I would.You are using it to mean "a machine that runs applications whose internal operation is a black box," or something along those...

Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), cloud computing, Tools & Techniques, application appliance, software-as-a-service, server

Discussion threads 2008-08-22