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Bletchley museum treasures vintage tech

Bletchley museum treasures vintage tech

...some that may be familiar to the more mature viewer.8-inch floppy disk drive The charmingly mechanical insides of an 8-inch floppy disk... Read more

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

Acorns land at Bletchley Park

...rack-mounted Eurocard systems. They added various combinations of video, memory and floppy disk interfaces to the standard CPU, which was still a 1MHz 6502... Read more

25 April, 2011 by Rupert Goodwins
Floppy Zip Disk Rescue 1.1.2

Floppy Zip Disk Rescue 1.1.2

...Rescue is an easy-to-use tool to rescue corrupt file from Floppy disk and ZIP disk or other peripheral devices, it fast scans disk... Read more

26 April, 2012
Screenshots: LibreOffice 3.5

Screenshots: LibreOffice 3.5

...same family. But some of the icon choices may be confusing. The floppy disk icon is certainly an anachronism in this day and age, although... Read more

21 February, 2012 by Mary Branscombe
My BootDisk 3.2

My BootDisk 3.2

...the solution of booting up Windows NT/2000/XP with only one floppy disk. This enables users to troubleshoot multiple operating system boot crash and... Read more

16 February, 2012
R-Drive Image 4.7 build 4737

R-Drive Image 4.7 build 4737

...a disk image when R-Drive Image is launched from a bootable floppy disk created by the trial version Read more

3 February, 2012

Quotes of the year: From Steve Jobs' impact to why architects are the Britneys of IT

...a 50/50 chance of moving data between Atari computers using a floppy disk because the alignment between floppy disk drives was never guaranteed" - Stephen... Read more

19 December, 2011 by Natasha Lomas

What got you interested in technology? IT's rich and famous share their memories

From father of the internet Vint Cerf to visionary sci-fi author William Gibson, the hardware that got IT's hall of fame started... Read more

16 November, 2011 by Nick Heath
WinAudit 2.29

WinAudit 2.29

...that needs no installation or configuration. It can be run from a floppy disk or USB stick. The program reports on virtually every aspect of... Read more

12 July, 2011

The monarchy and technology through the ages

...love, politics intervened and he had to go on to become a floppy disk magnate and office supplies supremo. When she died, the succession went... Read more

29 April, 2011 by Rupert Goodwins
AppleXsoft Photo Recovery 3.0

AppleXsoft Photo Recovery 3.0

...MMC, Pen drives, USB flash drives, CompactFlash I and II, Micro Drives, floppy disk, Zip disk, CD, DVD disk and most other storage media. AppleXsoft... Read more

26 April, 2011
Sondle File Recovery Assist 3.0.0.38

Sondle File Recovery Assist 3.0.0.38

...delete and formatted files back. It recovers deleted files on hard drivers, floppy disk, pen driver and USB storage media. It support to recover deleted... Read more

28 March, 2011
Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery - Professional 4.2

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery - Professional 4.2

...supports multiple media so that you can recover data from hard drive, floppy disk, CD, DVD and USB storage media. Live Update to receive latest... Read more

9 March, 2011
A quarter century of Windows

A quarter century of Windows

...now seem impossibly quaint: MS-DOS version 2.0; two double-sided floppy disk drives or a hard disk; 256KB of memory or greater; a... Read more

20 November, 2010 by Charles McLellan
Smart Partition Recovery 2.5

Smart Partition Recovery 2.5

...case of data loss. The saved files can be stored on a floppy disk, flash-drive or CD. In a manual mode, you can re... Read more

6 August, 2010

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Jack Schofield

@apexwm Have you considered either (a) reading the story above or (b) reading the PDF? There are answers in both.

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apexwm

I would love to hear why Microsoft believes that "upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 pays for itself in a year, in increased productivity and...

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debsmk

I have just changed mine to white they said 3 to 5 days

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BrownieBoy

Well done to IDC for producing a report that says using XP is a waste of money. Only 11 years too late with it is all....

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Jack Schofield

@Burn-IT ...which doesn't mean it isn't true ;-) I'll be interested if you can find any properly-researched, independent data from any of the...

6 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Burn-IT

As said, sponsored by Microsoft........

7 hours ago by Burn-IT on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
mrbigdong

@620W, I mine 1 BTC/daily for cost of 1.7eur, they naysayers regurgitate the rubbish they read as usual

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Mike Denton

If the link to the next section existed that would be awesome.... Guess I have to ask uncle google where it is

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minzhu

Don't blame CEO, they want RIM win. RIM has strange culture and self distruct political environment. In RIM if a new hired person figure out...

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knapper

That we have :-) Retailers don't buy stuff to lie around in warehouses, particularly with fast moving technology products. If they didn't think...

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JohneKerr

I think that we have been here before, shipments are not equal to sales. Correct?

23 hours ago by JohneKerr on Windows Phone, Android take bite out of BlackBerry
Iain Sutherland

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If ZTE have been selling below cost with the ZTE Blade / Orange San Francisco then given the current high street price of the Nokia Lumia 710, you...

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Burn-IT

Yes it is basically down to "nobody in control understands IT, is willing to admit it, or allow decisions to be delegated". Lets get someone in who...

1 day ago by Burn-IT on 6 million wasted licences and £1,200 PCs: welcome to government IT
pjc158

So let me get this straight just because a consultant has oberved that mobile companies who get in trouble never recover, well we all might as well...

1 day ago by pjc158 on RIM to lay off 2,000 on 1 June, says report
Jake Rayson

@191706> *their* own Mac Thank you for picking up the errant spelling :) @apexwm > Mac OS X for Intel machines is supposed to run in VirtualBox...

1 day ago by Jake Rayson on xTreme Triple Booting: Linux, Mac & Windows
archerthom

I'm imagining Batman-style sonar imaging that will detect the cat and Lego bricks in the dark - I'm going to be disappointed aren't I?

1 day ago by archerthom on Indoor navigation coming to a mobile near you soon
unlockworldwide

May I quote Horace Dediu, who runs the consultancy Asmyco who has repeatedly observed that mobile phone companies that fall into loss – even once...

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