Geek With Social Skills » Technology http://www.geekwithsocialskills.com I asked for a car, I got a computer. How's that for being born under a bad sign? Tue, 28 Dec 2010 00:22:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 May 11, 1951: RAM Is Born http://www.geekwithsocialskills.com/may-11-1951-ram-is-born/ http://www.geekwithsocialskills.com/may-11-1951-ram-is-born/#comments Tue, 11 May 2010 19:29:43 +0000 Sean http://www.geekwithsocialskills.com/?p=331 59 years ago today the patent for computer memory was filed by professor Jay Forrester at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Without any further delay, Happy Birthday to the creation of RAM… and there was much rejoicing… yay!

So how should we celebrate this technological achievement by the team at MIT? Upgrading our computer’s RAM of course :)

Source: Wired This Day In Tech

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Sony, which boasts 70 percent of the market, announced Friday that it would end Japanese sales of the ancient storage medium in March 2011, according to a report in the Mainichi Daily newspaper.

The 3.5-inch floppy was a ubiquitous and necessary component for storing and transferring files between personal computers for nearly three decades.

Sony pioneered the 3.5-inch floppy disk in 1981, eventually replacing the 5.25-inch floppy disk that had previously been the popular storage format.

This is sad news for sure. Time to stock up on 3.5″ floppies since I can still use them for my Commodore 1581 disk drive.

Source: CNET News

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]]> http://www.geekwithsocialskills.com/jw-player/feed/ 0 Xbox 360: Uno – My New Addiction http://www.geekwithsocialskills.com/xbox-360-uno-my-new-addiction/ http://www.geekwithsocialskills.com/xbox-360-uno-my-new-addiction/#comments Sun, 08 Feb 2009 17:05:59 +0000 Sean http://www.idreamthings.com/xbox-360-uno-my-new-addiction/ I’m seriously addicted to playing the card game Uno on my Xbox 360. The online multiplayer is awesome. If you haven’t tried it, I highly recommend it.

]]> http://www.geekwithsocialskills.com/xbox-360-uno-my-new-addiction/feed/ 0 Ultra-Modern Underground Data Center http://www.geekwithsocialskills.com/ultra-modern-underground-data-center/ http://www.geekwithsocialskills.com/ultra-modern-underground-data-center/#comments Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:14:29 +0000 Sean http://www.idreamthings.com/ultra-modern-underground-data-center/ Check out these cool pics of a Swedish Internet data center far below ground, set in an old nuclear shelter. It looks like a FPS game map.

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