You are currently browsing the weblog archive: September 2011.

HP 12C 30th Anniversary and Still Standing

Posted in Gadgetepoint Press Releases at 7:12 am

There’s a saying “if it ain’t broke, why fix it?”. And the HP 12C is the poster boy for this adage. For 30 years, HP’s calculator is still functional and it’s more than enough to do the functions that it was assigned to do.
The device was first launched in September 1, 1981. And it wasn’t [...]

Read the rest of this entry →

Google-Pac Man made employees unproductive

Posted in Desktop Fun, Games, Retro at 9:58 am

Last week, Pac Man celebrates his 30th anniversary, and Google, in homage to the blob chomping hero had a fully playable version of the game available on its webpage.
On the third weekend of May, many computer users were hearing a pitchy monotone that once they left their screen on Google for too long. And the [...]

Read the rest of this entry →