When I was in school, the original IBM PC came out. Anyone who used them will never forget carrying a handful of those black-sleeved 5¼-inch floppy disks around. Talk about data portability! You could fit the entire PC-DOS operating system on one 360 kB floppy and still have ( Read more... )

I’ve needed a new laptop for years. I bought my Vaio back in June of 2000, and five years equates to three or four generations in laptop-years. Of course, I was out of work for three of those years, so I didn’t feel I could afford to buy a new machine.

All that changed after I started work innovating buses last year at Bus-Innovation. By autumn, ( Read more... )