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    Slideshow -- Tech of Yesteryear: Where Old Computers Find Their Final Resting Place 24/11/2008 12:44:00

    Max Burnet has turned his home in the leafy suburbs of Sydney into arguably Australia’s largest private computer museum. Since retiring as director of Digital Equipment Corporation a decade ago, Burnet has converted his interest in the computing industry into an invaluable snapshot of computer history. Every available space from his basement to the top floor of his two-storey home is covered with relics from the past. His collection is vast, from a 1920s Julius Totalisator, the first UNIX PDP-7, a classic DEC PDP-8, the original IBM PC, Apple’s Lisa, MITS Altair 8800, numerous punch cards and over 6000 computer reference books. And more. He happily opened his doors for CIO to take a look.
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    Bill Gates: 10 memorable moments 17/06/2008 15:40:00

    For more than 30 years he has roamed among us, a strange hybrid of Napoleon Dynamite and Vlad the Impaler. Nerdy yet ruthless, brilliant yet hobbled by blind spots regarding his company's failings, Bill Gates leaves an indelible mark on everything digital. Yet on June 27, he'll step down from his day-to-day duties at Microsoft to devote himself to philanthropic activities.
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    Gates legacy filled with good, bad and ugly 11/06/2008 07:54:49

    Microsoft chairman Bill Gates formally entered the computer business in 1975 as a gangly geek and later this month will semi-exit as an industry luminary leaving behind a billion-dollar juggernaut and a legacy of software, personal computing, innovation, and tough and sometimes unfair competition.
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    10 Tech Pioneers: Where Are They Now? 24/11/2007 07:04:40

    These former technology luminaries have all taken different paths. How different? One's a country doctor, one's a budding movie mogul, and one teaches toddlers--and he's not even alive.
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    Bill Gates to finally receive his Harvard degree 23/03/2007 07:55:36

    It's not like he needs it to beef up his resume, but the world's richest college dropout is finally getting his degree.
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    The 25 Greatest PCs of All Time 21/08/2006 09:15:47

    The IBM PC is 25. And here are the top PCs ever, from machines you owned and loved to systems you've never heard of.
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    The 50 Greatest Gadgets of the Past 50 Years 24/12/2005 08:56:25

    Here's PC World's official (and entirely idiosyncratic) list of the top tech gadgets of the last half century.
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    Samsung launches feature-packed phone-PDA 22/07/2003 09:32:11

    Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. launched a wireless handheld device in South Korea Monday that combines a phone, a TV, a camera, and a camcorder in what is the beginning of a line of feature-packed gadgets that the company plans to roll out this year.
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    CeBIT to dazzle America 19/06/2003 09:43:52

    The first CeBIT show in America may be all work and little play, but plenty of business-savvy gadgets abound at this confab hosted by the German conventioneer.
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    Wireless PDAs offer something for everyone 20/03/2003 08:44:39

    Though far outnumbered by an avalanche of new cellular handsets, a handful of innovative wireless-enabled PDAs are grabbing some limelight at the CTIA Wireless 2003 show in the US this week.
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    One billion PCs sold after 25 years 02/07/2002 08:04:00

    The PC industry has reached the milestone of 1 billion PCs shipped since the advent of personal computers just over 25 years ago, according to research from Gartner Inc. and Intel Corp.
 
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