The Mouse is the input device that we best know. However, through the years there have been a variety of other interesting devices. SpaceBall devices for 3D External Trackpad Watcom […]
The devaluing of Aeroplan
Recently I have starting to question the value of Aeroplan. Over the years we have seen the devaluing of points. Examples have included the increase in Business Class to Asia […]
Series of Vintage Computers Booting Up
A series of vintage computers booting up (in the YouTube Channel) — includes: HP 9000 PA-RISC with NeXTStep SGI Indy with IRIX Compaq DeskPro 590 with OS/2 rev 2 Compaq […]
Backup Solutions from the 1990s
In the 1990s several backup solutions were offered. These consisted of a type of tape backup presented in a cartridge format. The two main companies behind this technology were IOMega […]
AT&T Unix PC 7300
I acquired a AT&T Unix PC 7300 computer from the Orange County, California area from a person who used to work at Bell Labs. AT&T Unix PC (1mb memory/40mb hard […]
Computer History Museum (Mountain View, California)
Earls Restaurant Ordering System and Simulation (1992)
In my final year of Computer Science I had several class projects. Drawing on my experience from working at several Earls Restaurant (16thave and Southport, Calgary) the class projects were […]
Internet Connected Devices
One of the things that I need to start doing is documenting the wireless devices that I have at home and how to access them. Many of them have Telnet […]
WebCam – vStarCam C7824WIP HD
VStarcam C7824WIP HD ($50USD) The VStarcam C7824WIP HD looked to be interesting. However, seems to be lacking in a few categories including the picture quality which is blurry and also seems […]
Vintage Computer Magazines and Non-Academic Bibliographical Databases
One of the things that would be useful would be the archiving of vintage computer magazines in the format of bibliographical databases. This would allow the following: a) search the […]