The Top Themes of 1998

Volume 2 Number 8 December 31, 1998

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by Scott Tilley

In this final musing of the year, we take a look back at some of the top stories from the PC industry in 1998. In our second year of publication, the top five themes were e-commerce, Y2K and the Euro, network bandwidth, the free source code movement, and quantum computing.

Cooking with Cable

Volume 2 Number 7 October 31, 1998

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by Scott Tilley

Are you looking for high-speed connections to the Net? I’ve used 56K modems, Digital Subscriber Lines (DSL), and now cable modems. Based on my experience with the cable modem, I wouldn’t say it cooks—or is fully cooked—just yet.

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The Joy of SCSI

Volume 2 Number 6 July 26, 1998

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by Scott Tilley

Installing an extra drive to increase storage space is supposed to be a relatively simple task. But when the drive is an external SCSI disk and the computer is a notebook, it's not exactly plug-and-play. My experiences in attaching a Quantum Fireball drive to an IBM ThinkPad computer using an Adaptec PC Card SCSI adapter made we wonder how the average person would cope with the situation.

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