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The Apple II is baaaaccckk (via emulator): In the Friday nostalgia department, TechRepublic's John Sheesley has unearthed an emulator for the Apple II. All you need is a browser and you're off to memory lane. Sheesley writes: Unlike the TRS-80 Model I Basic emulator page, the Virtual Apple site doesnâ€™t use a Java...; Tags: Apple II, Apple Inc., Emulator, ActiveX, Sheesley, Virtual Apple, ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, Middleware, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-10-10

Gauging the ThinkPad: Before (IBM) and after (Lenovo): Has Lenovo lost whatever mojo the ThinkPad had? That simple question raised a lot of discussion at TechRepublic and it's worth pondering. The problem: Gauging Lenovo's performance depends on a lot of anecdotes with few concreteÂ answers. As background, John Sheesley asked a simple question: Has Lenovo...; Tags: Consumer Reports, IBM ThinkPad, Lenovo Group Ltd., IBM Corp., Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-09-29
Windows bloat? It's always been that way: Last week I wrote about the first online critiques I’ve run across that Windows Vista will be YABMOS Yet Another Bloated Microsoft Operating System.And it got me to thinking: Has there ever been a Microsoft operating system that hasn’t been derided for its “bloat”? Apparently not. I took a little...; Tags: Microsoft Windows; Blog posts 2006-03-13