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Bletchley museum treasures vintage tech

Bletchley museum treasures vintage tech

...approved modem from the early 1980s that packed just about every contemporary standard into one box. It was nevertheless quite a simple design, based on... Read more

2 May, 2011 by Rupert Goodwins
Acorns land at Bletchley Park

Acorns land at Bletchley Park

...in November that year in order to sell it. Built on two standard Eurocard-sized boards, the System 1 had a 1MHz 6502 processor, 1... Read more

25 April, 2011 by Rupert Goodwins
Alan Turing: 10 ideas beyond Enigma

Alan Turing: 10 ideas beyond Enigma

Famous for wartime cryptography and personal tragedy, Alan Turing's legacy is much wider than that. One of the true fathers of computing, he also made many other advances that are only now becoming fully appreciated Read more

3 March, 2012 by S Barry Cooper
A tour of the UK's Vintage Computer Festival

A tour of the UK's Vintage Computer Festival

...to have as many interfaces as possible and built to a high standard by Acorn Computers, it has survived in large numbers, is beloved by... Read more

22 June, 2010 by Rupert Goodwins
Trite but right: Dull IT that made it big

Trite but right: Dull IT that made it big

...convinced Digital Equipment Corporation, Intel and Xerox to promote Ethernet as a standard, and the technology caught on in the early 1980s. Since then, through... Read more

11 December, 2010 by Matthew Broersma
Science Museum throws Robotville parade

Science Museum throws Robotville parade

...though, is that information on the internet is not formatted in a standard way, making it harder to be machine-readable, he said. Photo credit... Read more

2 December, 2011 by Ben Woods
Space station to drop into ocean in 2020

Space station to drop into ocean in 2020

...debris falls in the Pacific, well away from populated areas. That is standard procedure for something like this, according to Harwood. "They can't just... Read more

28 July, 2011 by Andrew Nusca
Atlantis shuttle docks with space station

Atlantis shuttle docks with space station

...and 400-mm lenses respectively. The dramatic rendezvous pitch manoeuvre is a standard procedure implemented following the Columbia disaster to help analysts make sure the... Read more

11 July, 2011 by William Harwood
The outer limits of vintage tech uncovered

The outer limits of vintage tech uncovered

...1940s telephone exchange switches called uniselectors. Although made to a very high standard, it contains no makers marks or identification and appears to be unique... Read more

25 June, 2010 by Rupert Goodwins
Dialogue Box 4.10: Windows Mobile vs the 3G iPhone

Dialogue Box 4.10: Windows Mobile vs the 3G iPhone

...latest Windows Mobile smartphones, to see how they match up to the standard set by Apple's iPhone 3G Read more

16 September, 2008 by Charles McLellan and Rupert Goodwins

Android invades living rooms with Google TV

...alongside internet video, overlaying live video with the user interface on a standard domestic TV screen. It also provides a way of running applications and... Read more

21 May, 2010 by Rupert Goodwins
Win an HP RDX backup system

Win an HP RDX backup system

...the entire system, using RDX Continuous Data Protection software or other similar standard backup applications with the same CDP feature. The external system comes clad... Read more

18 June, 2009 by ZDNet UK

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