• Steve Jobs’s Patents – Interactive Feature – NYTimes.com

  Quite a varied bunch including the iPod, iPhone & the likes. Also include the notorious hockey puck mouse.

  tags: apple patent stevejobs

• Coconut Chutney: The Chetan Bhagat Plot Generator

  I haven’t read any of his books yet, but the ones generated by this do seem really interesting. Then again they are only 1-2 para summaries.

  tags: plot generator story

• namebench – Open-source DNS Benchmark Utility – Google Project Hosting

  Handy little tool to benchmark the DNS servers locally & thus choose the best one

  tags: dns tools benchmark performance network software

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• IBM PC @ 30: Original review of the Personal Computer Model 5150 – reviews for UK IT professionals – V3.co.uk

  Key points:
  – You could actually use a TV as the monitor
  – The function of the scroll lock key was a mystery even then
  – BASIC (stored in the ROM) came before DOS
  – Esc, Alt + Del was the reboot combo
  And from the review in a nutshell:
  “This is probably the most professionally put-together system I have seen. The only thing missing at the moment is a wide selection of packages, but I rather feel that the whole world and its grandmother will be frantically trying to fill that particular gap.”

  tags: review PC ibm history

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