Archive for July, 2005

Funny old computers

Monday, July 11th, 2005

Here’s a German site full of (laughable) PCs that were once on the market back in the 80’s and perhaps earlier. C64s and AppleIIe, eat your heart out.

I can imagine they must have cost a few thousand each….at the time!

The best part is that I submitted it to Boing Boing, and it got accepted! Which also made it hit the del.icio.us popular page (notice I was the firstto post it at the bottom of the post list.

Microsoft is doing hosted applications?

Saturday, July 9th, 2005

Interesting…Microsoft is doing hosted applications? I know these aren’t full applications but it’s still a hint that they’re scared of losing their desktop application presence to hosted applications and have already been developing hosted scenario applications.

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