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I Finished University!
So some of you may know that I've been undertaking a degree via distance learning since 2018. Specifically I've been working towards a BSc (Honours) degree in computing and IT…
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It’s been a while….
So, yeahh...... It's been a while since I wrote anything here. Don't ask me why, I can't honestly tell you. This was the original home of Tech Made Easy before…
The Compaq D510SFF is Still an Amazing PC
Back when I started my IT career in 2002 most offices were doing away with their old beige boxes and opting for more contemporary designs in gold and silver. Compaq…
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Mystery AT Pentium III Build
I've done it again! Not content with the Barn Find Pentium Pro, and the awful P4 machine that I picked up at the same time, I've hopped back on OLX.in…
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Checking out the Shuttle SN41G2
Back in 2003 PCs were changing. We'd suffered the horrible beige boxes of the 90s and with the invention of the iMac in 1998, companies were looking to make their…
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Making The Barn Find Pentium Pro More Usable
In this video I upgrade the Barn Find Pentium Pro with additional parts which will hopefully make it more flexible and easier to upgrade in future. https://youtu.be/xxdjKyQRqhk
This Pentium 4 PC Wasn’t Worth Saving
Sometimes a piece of junk is JUST a piece of junk. A while back I picked up a couple of PCs on the Indian classified website olx.in One of those…
My AMD Ryzen 5900x / Nvidia 3080 BEAST
Yeah, I know, I have way more money than sense. There was absolutely NOTHING wrong with my AMD Ryzen 3900x based system, even with its cautiously optimistic Radeon 5700XT GPU.…
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Unboxing a Pentium Pro from 1996
Way back when, Intel needed a product that would bridge the gap between high-end server machines and ordinary desktops. They came up with the Pentium Pro not long after the…
Olivetti Philos 46 – Revisiting my First PC
Back in winter 1994 I remember spending one wet and windy evening sitting patiently in the aisles of PC World in Northampton as my dad spoke to a salesman with…