Over the past year or so my “office” in one room of the house has become pretty much nothing but storage, and in the process my Macintosh systems as well as a few other Windows machines of varying vintages have been effectively inaccessible. Over the past week some work has been done on that room […]
It’s been a while since we’ve taken a look at a Computer Chronicles episode, so tonight I thought it might be fun to take a look at this 1992 episode on Word Perfect. Word Perfect was a very popular piece of word processing software in the 90’s and early 90’s, only relenting dominance of the […]
June 2nd marked one year since a work colleague gave (yes, gave) me a Power Mac G5 computer – my first working Macintosh system and, of more interesting note, a specimen of the last generation of PowerPC based Macintosh computers. With me being the kind of tech enthusiast I am the machine was naturally a […]
In the event you’ve somehow missed it the AOL Instant Messenger service, commonly known as AIM, will shut down at the end of 2017, after being operational for 20 years. https://aimemories.tumblr.com/ https://help.aol.com/articles/aim-discontinued While Facebook Messenger is considered the primary messaging system in the world today, there are many many options available – Skype, ICQ, Discord, […]