If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It: Ancient Computers in Use Today

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If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It: Ancient Computers in Use Today From 1970s minicomputers used for military programs (including nuclear weapons) to an IBM punch-card system still keeping the books at a Texas filter supplier, these are the computers that time forgot. - Benj Edwards, PCWorld Desktop How-Tos Multiple Ports on Your PC: What Do They Do for You? The back of your PC is chock full of connectors and ports--USB isn't the only game in town. Here's a primer on ports. Share: How to Share an External Drive Between a Mac and a PC Want to use a single external drive with both a Mac and a Windows PC? Follow our guide to learn how to do it. Share: My PC Doesn't See My Hard Drive When Wendell tries to boot his PC, an error message announces a disk read error. It's as if his hard drive--with three year's worth of work on it--doesn't exist. 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