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Loading Screens, and loading bars; it's a question which plagued my mind for many years. Why, when loading games from audio ...

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The first Pentium processors released by Intel way back in 1993 were 60Mhz and 66Mhz variants. But why release 2 processors ...

Welcome to the evolution of USB... The path from the original IBM PC to now, has been a relatively short one, but still one tangled ...

PCs in the late 90s would most likely have been blessed with the terms MMX Processors. Pentium MMX, Pentium II MMX.

Today we're taking a high level look at Virtual Drivers and Dynamic Link Libraries; commonplace on operating systems since the ...

Think of this video as almost a Pentium vs. 486 reference.The Pentium processor seemed like a huge leap in performance over it's ...

The 8088 was an early micro processor by Intel with an 8 bit Bus. The 8086 was an early micro processor by Intel with a 16 bit ...

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It's back! What's on my Disk! Episode 11! For this episode I have a single high density 3.5" floppy which claims to contain a ...

Computer memory has come a long way, and the IBM PC Compatible has been at the forefront of memory technology since it's ...

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If you owned an IBM Compatible PC during the 80s or 90s then you'll likely know the ordeal of setting up peripherals such as ...

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Strange as it may seem, Lotus 1-2-3 was actually partly responsible for a big DOS shakeup. That shakeup involved expanding the ...