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Hackaday: Jam Like It’s The 1980s With A Mini-IBM PC. ” In spite of the serious, boring nature of the PC/AT and its descendants, those early IBMs have a certain style that Compaq and the Clones never quite matched. Somehow, we live in a world where there are people nostalgic for Big Blue. That’s why [AnneBarela] built a miniature IBM PC using an Adafruit Fruit Jam board.” As long as it’s […]

Techspot: Dell admits customers are not buying PCs just because they “have AI”. “Nearly every major tech company is now trying to oversell this inflated ‘AI-powered’ narrative, and the PC market is no exception. Dell, who happens to be shipping a lot of PCs to every corner of the world, is apparently taking a more skeptical stance moving forward, arguing that the push is misguided because […]

I'm seeking budget-friendly 30"+ monitors for desktop computing via Raspberry Pi 4 (mostly movie files) etc and a little Xbox gaming - anyone have any strong recommendations? If so, feel free to share! I don't feel like I'm up to speed on this at all. But it absolutely must *not* be a TV (don't watch TV, so don't pay for a license, and don't want to be falsely flagged up for one by buying one!) #DesktopComputers #DesktopComputing #RaspberryPi #RaspberryPi4 #Xbox #MediaCenterKodi #gaming #monitor

Why Jony Ive Left Apple to the ‘Accountants’ - The man who helped give the world candy-colored computers walked out the door as Tim Cook... - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/01/technology/jony-ive-apple-design.html #appointmentsandexecutivechanges #contenttype:personalprofile #computersandtheinternet #desktopcomputers #cooktimothyd #ivejonathan #jobsstevenp #appleinc #design #iphone #ipad #ipod

Chuck Geschke, Father of Desktop Publishing, Dies at 81 - In 1980, he and a fellow researcher created a way of sending documents between a computer... - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/20/technology/chuck-geschke-dead.html #computersandtheinternet #portabledocumentformat #deaths(obituaries) #desktopcomputers #entrepreneurship #adobesystemsinc #geschkecharlesm #warnockjohn #software #appleinc

Lawrence Tesler, Pioneer of Personal Computing, Dies at 74 - At Xerox and later at Apple, he worked to make computers accessible to, as a former colleague put ... more: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/20/technology/lawrence-tesler-dead.html #computersandtheinternet #deaths(obituaries) #desktopcomputers #xeroxcorporation #teslerlarry #jobsstevenp #software #appleinc