Music industry’s 1990s hard drives, like all HDDs, are dying
One of the things enterprise storage and destruction company Iron Mountain does is handle the archiving of the media industry ...
The Economist8d
Youngsters are fleeing Japan’s once-mighty civil service
These days it is winter for Japan’s once-mighty civil service. Talented cadres are fleeing harsh work conditions in search of greater opportunities and more flexibility. The number of elite ...
blog.cheapism22d
Technology That Was Cutting Edge the Year You Were Born
The world came alive on television sets with the release of the RCA CT-100 model, which had a 12-inch screen. It cost $1,000. In 1955, the brand Tappan released its first microwave oven, changing the ...
Daily Mail23d
The everyday 1990s objects children have never heard of: New poll reveals 61% of 10-year-olds don't know what a floppy disk is - so, how many items do YOU remember?
It was only a couple of decades ago that schools were filled with floppy disks, overhead projectors and cassette players. So it's testament to how quickly technology has changed that today's young ...
theregister28d
Tech support chap solved knotty disk failure problem by staring at the floor
It had a single terminal and printer attached and was backed up and updated by old fashioned floppy disks." The machine also had a hard disk – and at one of Emmett's clients that component kept ...