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My First PC and Internet

Back in about 1994 my sister and I were lucky enough to own a state of the art IBM PC (for those too young to remember, IBM used to make PCs and then sold this side of their Business to Lenovo). This hardcore PC had a massive 64MB RAM with an Intel 486 DX4/100 processor. [...]

Happy 30th to MS-DOS

On the 27th July MS-DOS turned 30 years old. No matter how much people claim to dislike MS-DOS it was absolutely instrumental in the mass proliferation in the usage of computers. Microsoft Disc Operating System (MS-DOS) was a renamed version of Q-DOS (Quick-and-Dirty Operating System) which was was written ‘for Intel’s 16-bit microprocessor – the [...]

Dell the Service King

Dell, the PC brand, went through a difficult patch a few years back in terms of less than desirable service. Certainly, from my recent experience, those bad old days are over. My laptop of choice is a Dell XPS m1330. Its light weight, fast, the battery lasts for hours and the screen is great (the downside of the [...]