You may have heard rumors of a Playstation audiophile CD player. That’s a bit of an exaggeration. But early models of the Sony Playstation do happen to be a much-better-than-average CD player. And to some extent, that propped up the The post Playstation audiophile CD player appeared first on The Silicon Underground.| The Silicon Underground
It was 22 years ago this week, on Semptember 8, 2003, that the Recording Industry Association of America started suing individuals for pirating MP3 files. One of the people caught up in a lawsuit was a 12-year-old honors student who The post When the RIAA sued a 12-year-old for MP3 piracy appeared first on The Silicon Underground.| The Silicon Underground
On September 6, 2001, HP announced its intention to acquire Compaq for $25 billion. It was a stunning end for what still seemed to be one of the rising stars of the PC industry. I also think it proved that The post The ill-fated HP-Compaq merger appeared first on The Silicon Underground.| The Silicon Underground
On September 4th, 1998, Google incorporated in California. Even if you are not a fan, and make no mistake, I am not, you have to admit Google left its mark on the Internet. It fundamentally changed the Internet in numerous The post Google incorporated September 4, 1998 appeared first on The Silicon Underground.| The Silicon Underground
Computer journalism pioneer Wayne Green was born 103 years ago on this day, September 3, 1922. Green founded several different magazines, computer and otherwise, some of which ended up competing with each other. Green was an avid amateur radio hobbyist, The post Wayne Green, computer journalism pioneer appeared first on The Silicon Underground.| The Silicon Underground
At the end of August 2024, Anandtech shut down rather suddenly and unexpectedly, ending a run that dated back to April 3, 1997. I thought about writing something at the time, but really needed longer to collect my thoughts. Now The post Anandtech shut down abruptly, August 30, 2024 appeared first on The Silicon Underground.| The Silicon Underground
On August 29, 1953, the Tokyo Television Acoustic Company was founded. Later in the decade it merged with the Tokyo Electro-Acoustic Company, and the combined company took the name TEAC. The combined company specialized in designing and manufacturing tape recorders. The post TEAC founded in 1953, sort of appeared first on The Silicon Underground.| The Silicon Underground
The firmware in my RAMCHECK is very old, there were many updates since then. Unfortunately, the firmware was not published on the internet before Innoventions closed down. So, this is my adventure about obtaining new firmware. Original Firmware My RAMCHECK runs version 2.06E. It is pretty good, but I have noticed when running the advanced […] Source| LinuxJedi's /dev/null
Whilst repairing vintage machines, a lot of RAM passes by my benches. Most of it works great, some of it is in not so good condition. It is possible to test RAM in a system, but that may not tell the…| LinuxJedi's /dev/null
According to some, the ARK1000VL is considered the fastest VLB graphics card chip you can get. I recently repaired several other VLB graphics cards, so when an ARK1000VL based card came up…| LinuxJedi's /dev/null
Hot on the heels of repairing the Cirrus Logic VLB card, I acquired a dead Trident TGUI9440 based VLB graphics card to see if I could repair it. This is the card I received. It is a 1MB card which is…| LinuxJedi's /dev/null