Years ago, he used to send APRS packets into space with a small rig powered by a 286 computer and HandiTalkie. These packets would drift off into space most of the time, but occasionally they ...

That machine—which included an embedded 286 computer—was out of date and could not be upgraded. “This is one of those jobs none of my staff could take on,” Balsarotti recalled.

In high school he upgraded to a 286 PC, and he's been following Moore's law ever since. This love of technology continued through a number of university courses and crappy jobs until 2008 ...

The "Turbo" button was very common in 286 and 386 PC clones, less common in 486 PCs, and almost extinct by the time Pentium processors became mainstream in the late 1990s. As technology advanced ...

Even so, Windows took a while to catch on. Many PCs were not that high-spec. If you had a 286 PC, it could use a megabyte or more of memory. If you had a 386 with 2MB of RAM, it could run in 386 ...

AT-class machines ran DOS and were extremely sluggish under Windows. See 286. The original PC launched by IBM in 1981 used Intel's 16-bit 8088 CPU. This chip family was designed so that the ...

It was also the first time the computer booted directly into Windows ... See Windows 3.0 and Windows 3.1. Windows 2.0/286/386 (1987) - MS Version 2.0 Windows 2.0 introduced overlapping, resizable ...

Despite all of this, Gelis-Filho doesn't rule out the possibility of receiving a message or signal from another intelligent ...

Combining a laser with a printer, pen, and cutting tools is inspired. While it takes a little manual calibration to mark out ...

If you are very organized, you might want to look at getting a suitcase with compartments because they make packing so much ...

SportsLine's model simulated Monday's ALCS Game 1 Cleveland Guardians vs. New York Yankees matchup 10,000 times ...