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Bletchley Park faces bleak future Camera icon

Bletchley Park faces bleak future

Photos The secret home to Britain's World War II codebreaking efforts could face closure in two to three years unless it receives more funding [13 May 2008]

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Babbage's Difference Engine No 2 brought to life Camera icon

Babbage's Difference Engine No 2 brought to life

Photos The computing curator of London's Science Museum has spearheaded the construction of Charles Babbage's masterpiece, 150 years after its design [12 May 2008]


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Cracking open the Apple MacBook Air

Photos The MacBook Air is thin, light and a testament to what good engineering can accomplish in a notebook computer — so here's a peek inside the ultra-thin machine [18 Mar 2008]

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Cracking open the BlackBerry Curve

Photos When disassembling the BlackBerry Curve 8310, TechRepublic's John Lee is amazed to find the whole device is held together by just six tiny screws [18 Feb 2008]


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Cracking open the Radio Shack TRS-80 CoCo

Photos ZDNet.co.uk's Rupert Goodwins takes a look inside a deconstructed Radio Shack TRS-80 Color Computer [06 Feb 2008]

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Chasing memory breakthroughs at IBM Almaden

Photos Scientists at the company's Almaden Research Center are aiming to leap years ahead with new types of hardware for storing data [06 Feb 2008]


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Cracking open the Iomega Zip drive

Photos These once-popular drives gave many users their first taste of easy-to-use backup and storage media. But have you ever wondered what's inside? [04 Feb 2008]

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Cracking open Apple's iBook G3

Photos The original clamshell iBook from Apple generated almost as much buzz in the IT world as the iPhone has recently. Mark Kaelin takes a look inside [25 Jan 2008]


Building a polycarbonate, all-in-one, LCD PC Camera icon

Building a polycarbonate, all-in-one, LCD PC

Photos George Ou, technical director of ZDNet.com, talks through his decision to build his mother an all-in-one PC and LCD display [24 Jan 2008]

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Cracking open the 1974 Altair 8800

Photos Follow step by step as vintage computer aficionado and collector Erik Klein carefully restores a 1974 Altair 8800 to working order [27 Nov 2007]


Software we have known and loved: Lotus Symphony 3 Camera icon

Software we have known and loved: Lotus Symphony 3

Photos IBM/Lotus recently released an office suite called Symphony — but it isn't the first to go by that name [21 Nov 2007]

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Cracking open the Nabaztag Wi-Fi rabbit

Photos Intrigued by the idea of what was inside the plastic bunny with whirling ears and blinky lights, Mark Kaelin dug out his tools — and found a few surprises [15 Nov 2007]


'Geek pride' at the Vintage Computer Festival Camera icon

'Geek pride' at the Vintage Computer Festival

Photos Industry veterans and computer hobbyists come together at California's Computer History Museum, to enjoy vintage computers, video games and gadgets [12 Nov 2007]


Driving the web revolution: The 'Internet Van' Camera icon

Driving the web revolution: The 'Internet Van'

Photos California's Computer History Museum is celebrating the 30th birthday of the first true internet connection by displaying the van in which it occurred [09 Nov 2007]

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Old laptops transform the lives of Africa's blind

Photos USB sticks and donated laptops from UK businesses are allowing African students access to the previously closed world of higher education [20 Sep 2007]


Photos: HP's hardware graveyard Camera icon

Photos: HP's hardware graveyard

Photos Roseville, California is home to HP's huge recycling centre, where computer equipment, printing supplies, rechargeable batteries and other items go to die [26 Jul 2007]


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