Warm feelings and much contentment is to be found in firing up one of the excellent (and mostly free) Speccy emulators and loading Manic Miner. Only thing is I can't get any Speccy emulators to run on my PC - maybe I should have a trip up the attic...
As well as talking about Spectrum emulators and the "now famous 'dead flesh' keyboard" Chappell added: "The thing that stays with me from that tail end of the Sinclair era is the sheer scale of market penetration.
Scientists have successfully mapped the folding sequence of proteins using the shared power of a distributed network of thousands of computers. This model of computing was made famous by the SETI@Home experiment, whose ongoing mission is to seek...
The developer kit lets programmers write Java applications that comply with version 1 of the Mobile Information Device Platform (MIDP), a collection of Java features geared specifically for cell phones.
Microsoft will encourage dial-up users to update their Windows XP systems with Service Pack 2 by distributing the update on one million CDs in the UK. SP2 for Windows XP is a major upgrade for Microsoft's desktop operating system.
Demand on corporate networks for distributed services these days goes well beyond the usual IT tasks. But actually measuring how distributed a business is can be problematic. The impact this has on highly distributed businesses is palpable.