The battery in my trusty Casio fx-570x calculator finally died. I thought it was broken at first, until I remembered it used a battery. The tiny LR14 was the original battery (made in Japan) in the calculator when I bought it. It got me through A-levels and University back in the late 1980s, and has been calculating for me ever since. Except now the blasted battery died. Oh why can’t we rely on electronic gadgets these days? I’ve put a new battery …
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Transferring files from a failed laptop – puppy power
I was recently tasked with transferring files from a failed laptop. The laptop kind of worked, but some bad sectors had started to appear in a number of vital system files, so it was very unstable. This was an old WIndows 98 system, and I could not simply plug in a USB drive, because there were no Windows 98 drivers around for the external USB drives that I had. In the end the disk had to be removed, and connected …