Up until very recently I’d used an old Cisco WAP121 as my wireless access point in my garden office, and for a long time it was absolutely fine. It was…
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…
Desktop computer speakers are a bit of an afterthought for most people. Through the 90s and into the 2000s they were a massively important accompaniment to any half-decent gaming rig,…
Oh god, not another "DOOM running on random hardware" post. Yes, I'm afraid it is, but in this example I'm much more interested in talking about the origins and use…
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…
Online auctions are dangerous, especially when they're 250 miles away! I picked up with 386 machine on an online auction, but after picking it up it transpires it wasn't a…
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…
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…
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
A while back I made a PC stats display using a Raspberry Pi and some free software from Modbros. Conceptually I loved it as a solution, I just wished it…
Floppy disks were a massive part of the computing landscape in the 80s and 90s. Back in a time before high speed internet and USB drives, if you were moving…
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.…
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…