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- Why Are Apple and Microsoft Using Such Old Processors in Their New Computers? http://gizmodo.com/why-are-apple-and-microsoft-using-such-old-processors-i-1788302547 27 comments
- Watch an Apple Engineer Recreate a 2,000-Year Old Computer Using Legos http://www.fastcodesign.com/1662831/watch-an-apple-engineer-recreate-a-2000-year-old-computer-using-legos 3 comments
- Watch an Apple Engineer Recreate a 2,000-Year-Old Computer Using Legos http://www.fastcodesign.com/1662831/how-one-engineer-redesigned-an-ancient-greek-mechanical-computer-out-of-legos 13 comments apple
- Amazing uses for old computer parts http://www.asylum.com/2009/01/20/amazing-new-uses-for-old-computer-parts/ 2 comments technology
- How to Make Use of Old Computer Hardware http://www.interbent.com/how-to-make-use-of-old-computer-hardware/ 41 comments reddit.com
- Creative uses for old computer parts http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/feature-creative-uses-for-old-computer-parts 6 comments reddit.com
- I happened upon an old server and I want to use it as...a computer http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,1749731,00.asp 22 comments software
- How to Make use of Old Computer Hardware [pics] http://www.interbent.com/how-to-make-use-of-old-computer-hardware/ 12 comments hardware
- How Dutch activists used computer-generated 10 year old girl to catch over 1000 padophiles all over the world http://www.wearobo.com/2013/11/see-how-computer-generated-10-year-old.html 224 comments technology
- Trying to clean install XP on an old computer (using several methods) http://www.support.microsoft.com/kb/310994 7 comments techsupport
- Justice department 'uses aged computer system to frustrate FOIA requests': Lawsuit accuses DOJ of ‘failure by design’ through use of decades-old system. http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jul/16/justice-department-freedom-of-information-computer-system 36 comments law
- Justice department 'uses aged computer system to frustrate Foia requests'. Lawsuit accuses DoJ of ‘failure by design’ through use of decades-old system. http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jul/16/justice-department-freedom-of-information-computer-system 384 comments politics
- Hackers Mine Cryptocurrency Using Exploit on 700,000 Old Windows Computers https://beincrypto.com/hackers-mine-cryptocurrency-using-exploit-on-700000-old-windows-computers/ 20 comments windows
- If you are planning on receiving a new computer this Christmas, I could use your old one. http://minecraft.net/ 4 comments reddit.com
- Researchers have decoded more writing on the 2,000-year-old Antikythera mechanism, called the world's first computer, and found that it may have been used to tell fortunes http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/worlds-first-computer-may-have-been-used-tell-fortunes-180959335/?no-ist 44 comments history
- I took some pictures yesterday of old computer interfaces. Here are some at 1920 px wide, free for personal use. http://lexpython.imgur.com/old_computers 3 comments reddit.com
- The Internet Archive announces the Historical Software Archive uses JSMESS to run old computer and console software in your browser http://blog.archive.org/2013/10/25/microcomputer-software-lives-again-this-time-in-your-browser/ 7 comments technology
- John McCain Doesn't Use a Computer (another sign he's too f'ing old) http://gizmodo.com/352501/mac-vs-pc-the-republicans 58 comments politics
- Manning found guilty on felony computer fraud charge for using a 17-year-old program to access files that prosecutors admit he could otherwise access freely. Max sentence 10 years. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/07/30/the-free-web-program-that-got-bradley-manning-convicted-of-computer-fraud/ 4 comments politics
- My dad has a bunch of floppy disks with important information on them.He has to use his very old computer to access the information.How can he use his new computer to access the floppy disks? http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sabrent-SBT-UFDB-drive-Floppy-external/dp/B000ALM3RC/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1318173855&sr=8-2-fkmr0 8 comments techsupport
- TIL the guidance system on old Minuteman missiles used a magnetic drive as active computer memory. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/lgm-30g_minuteman-iii#guidance 3 comments technology
- Cleaned my IBM Model M keyboard (old clicky one) and now my S key doesn't work. But if I hold it down for a few seconds my computer beeps. Didn't use any liquids on the keyboard itself, just air. Any ideas? https://www.pckeyboard.com/ 3 comments techsupport
- How would I install a new OS system to a fresh hard drive on an old computer using a digital download? https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/6w0t1p/how_would_i_install_a_new_os_system_to_a_fresh/ 5 comments techsupport
- Israeli police arrest six people, including a 70-year-old woman, seize their computers used to upload material to conscientious objector websites http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,l-3707009,00.html 19 comments worldnews
- Healing an Achilles’ Heel of Quantum Entanglement: Researchers solved a 20-year-old problem in quantum information theory on how to calculate entanglement cost—a way to measure entanglement—in a manner that’s efficiently computable, useful, and broadly applicable in several quantum research areas https://www.lsu.edu/research/news/2020/0729-markwilde.php 13 comments science
- I used SharePod years ago but today it seems theres no way to transfer music from an old iPod to a computer for free. Is there really no free option? https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/94phc6/i_used_sharepod_years_ago_but_today_it_seems/ 9 comments apple
- How to take an old computer and actually use it productively with a few free changes. (I actually used this to swivel seat and create a business on the side, ultimately setting me free from the corporate world.) http://www.victorycoaches.com/2013/12/12/how-to-save-an-old-computer/ 10 comments productivity
- I'm a 16 year old student super interested in Computer Science, and tonight I'm analyzing the third debate using python + the initialstate dashboard! https://i.reddituploads.com/4e17fa84ae7c4c589fe32f44904e14f2?fit=max&h=1536&w=1536&s=8fde23d25554d8c048e97bbcc7ff1ef0 70 comments compsci
- Using SATA-to-IDE converters to run new hard drives on old computers http://www.gizfever.com/sata-converter-p-268.html 3 comments techsupport
- Got an IDE drive, Using a IDE to SATA converter. Drive seems to be detected, but the computer boots with the old hard drives bios screen and loads into my OS? http://www.amazon.co.uk/GadgetpoolUK-SATA-Bi-Directional-Converter-Adaptor/dp/B007G5N14O/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1419370281&sr=8-1&keywords=ide+to+sata 11 comments techsupport
- The Code That Controls Your Money - COBOL is a coding language older than Weird Al Yankovic. The people who know how to use it are often just as old. It underpins the entire financial system. And it can’t be removed. How a computer language controls the financial life of the world. https://www.wealthsimple.com/en-ca/magazine/cobol-controls-your-money 174 comments technology
- The Code That Controls Your Money - COBOL is a coding language older than Weird Al Yankovic. The people who know how to use it are often just as old. It underpins the entire financial system. And it can’t be removed. How a computer language controls the financial life of the world. https://www.wealthsimple.com/en-ca/magazine/cobol-controls-your-money 57 comments coding
- The Code That Controls Your Money - COBOL is a coding language older than Weird Al Yankovic. The people who know how to use it are often just as old. It underpins the entire financial system. And it can’t be removed. How a computer language controls the financial life of the world. https://www.wealthsimple.com/en-ca/magazine/cobol-controls-your-money 186 comments programming
- The Code That Controls Your Money - COBOL is a coding language older than Weird Al Yankovic. The people who know how to use it are often just as old. It underpins the entire financial system. And it can’t be removed. How a computer language controls the financial life of the world. https://www.wealthsimple.com/en-ca/magazine/cobol-controls-your-money 8 comments indepthstories
- COBOL is a coding language older than Weird Al Yankovic. The people who know how to use it are often just as old. It underpins the entire financial system. And it can’t be removed. How a computer language controls the financial life of the world. https://www.wealthsimple.com/en-us/magazine/cobol-controls-your-money 106 comments coding
- Scientists have written a computer program that can automatically reconstruct long-extinct languages from modern ones. They have already used the program to produce evidence in favour of a 60-year old hypothesis about language evolution that many had believed to be wrong. http://www.nature.com/news/computer-program-roots-out-ancestors-of-modern-tongues-1.12407 19 comments science
- I'm going to tell my grandchildren about the good old days when we had to type words on a computer one letter at a time using a "keyboard". They will marvel at the slowness and inefficiency of my generation. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9141180/intel_chips_in_brains_will_control_computers_by_2020 43 comments compsci
- "We're looking forward, we're not assuming you're gonna run a 5 year old computer. The purpose of this is to say what can be done with computers today and even tomorrow. Obviously we're not gonna be using 1GB blocks tomorrow, but the fact is that a relatively inexpensive computer today can do so" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SJm2ep3X_M 92 comments btc
- Scientists have used the latest computer-imaging technology to produce stunning three-dimensional pictures of a 49 million-year-old spider trapped inside an opaque piece of fossilized amber resin. (See video) http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=7048 3 comments science
- Hi everyone, Im' glad I found this community, I've learned many things about Blender, wich I started using for two weeks now. I made this animation and I am rendering another one right now, but it's stuck because my computer is an old iMac. If someone could render an animation of mine I would re... https://v.redd.it/cyz9quwfmsiz 5 comments blender