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Scott writes – “Here are some photos I shot in the Visible Storage area of the amazing Computer History Museum in Mountain View California which has a huge collection of computers going back to the dawn of the computer age. It included computers like UNIVAC, Digital Equipment PDP and Vaxs, Cray Supercomputers, components from SAGE […]
Looks like the first seasons of MacGyver are for sale on Google video for $1.99 a pop (Windows only) Link. On a related note, MAKE is pleased to announce Lee David Zlotoff (creator of MacGyver) will be doing a regular column in MAKE!
Josh Bloom sent us a great mini how to on converting an old rotary phone for use as a cell phone “handset”. Link.
MAKE has about 3,400 bookmarks you can check out see what we’re seeing at any time – but if a list of links isn’t your thing, here’s a site called Thumblicious that adds thumbnails to any list of bookmarks on del.icio.us – [via] Link to our bookmark thumbnails.
Matt writes “Is .mac worth it to me? Many of the reasons I do not find .mac useful are the same reasons I encourage others to use it. My needs are different than the average computer user. This is not an “I hate .mac” article but rather an explanation of the motivation and methods I […]
Eliot on Engadget has a sub-ish $1,000 HTPC how-to, he writes “We’ve seen a lot of home theater PCs lately and being in need of a new workstation, we decide to build one of our own. We started planning by looking around to see what others had done. It would be fun to own a […]
Lindsey writes “I recently got a new replacement laptop for work. I had a lot of stuff on the old laptop after 2+ years of use and so I didn’t want to have to rush myself in remembering everything in one or two passes before formatting it to send back to the office. There are […]
