Have you ever felt like taking a walk down a virtual memory lane? The Wayback Machine or the Internet Archive, is a cool site that has been archiving web pages since 1996 and has over 55 billion pages in its archive at present. As of 2006 the Wayback Machine contained almost 2 petabytes of data…

Are reports of its demise greatly exaggerated? …Um … NO! Now ask yourself, when was the last time you used a floppy? Floppy discs have been around since the 1970s and remain the oldest form of low cost removable storage still around. In a sense, it’s amazing they have hung around for this long. They…

Improving system performance by using Disk Defragmenter The hard disk drive in your PC is like a file cabinet and over time it can get pretty disorganized. When programs or files are installed on your computer they are typically broken up over multiple locations, increasing the time required for your computer to find and assemble…

Over the past couple of years it has been increasingly difficult for the average customer to tell what the CPU performance is based on the CPU part number. Of course clock speed is no longer the only factor with new multi-core processors, increased cache sizes, die changes and power management enhancements. Passmark Software has benchmarked…

Over the past two years one of our industrial grade keyboards (model 2000-DT-TB) has gained a bit of a reputation appearing on many internet blogs as “the world’s most expensive keyboard“. There’s been plenty of head scratching trying to figure out why it costs so much compared to a regular desktop keyboard. What most of…

Here’s a flashback of a very popular product we used to build in the 90’s. It was a clone of the original Compaq machines that were everywhere and kept the chiropractors busy. The Stealth Transportable PC featured a monochrome mini CRT (optional color) and the Intel 80386SX Processor which ran a blazing 16MHz. This portable…