Month: May 2010

Thin Client is an area that deserves much more press when it comes to the education market. They are of limited use in high-capacity situations like video editing or multimedia production, but just great for ordinary every day word processing or spreadsheets. They work by connecting to a terminal server and running their user session…

This year is computer upgrade year at home, and one of the first steps I undertook was to replace the 17” Philips CRT screen I have owned in the past few years (107S51) with an Acer 17” LCD (V173). Best screen I ever owned. The old Philips sat in the corner and gathered dust, until…

When I was still at school, most of the early personal computer platforms were proprietary. Apple. Commodore and Tandy were among the big names in development at that time, each with its own hardware platforms developed in house. That soon changed with the development of the PC platform by IBM which became open when it…