Resurrecting IBM's PCjr 
Photos TechRepublic's Mark Kaelin runs Lotus 1-2-3 on an IBM PC from the 1980s, and revisits the quirks that meant the machine was doomed [12 Aug 2008]
Cracking open Apple's iPhone 3G
Photos TechRepublic's Bill Detwiler investigates the inner workings of Apple's latest iPhone [11 Aug 2008]
Search engines of the 1990s
Photos Cuil may be the new kid on the search-engine block, but plenty of older competitors are still holding their own [04 Aug 2008]
Computer blunders of the technologically inept
Photos Over eight years as a PC technician at a major computer-retail store in the US, Rod Shelley documented all manner of operator-induced hardware misfortunes [16 Jul 2008]
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Supercomputing in the Tennessee woods
Photos One of the world's largest supercomputer collections lives deep in the Tennessee forest, where plutonium for the first atomic bombs was processed during WWII [09 Jul 2008]
Code makers and breakers of WWII
Photos As Bletchley Park's future hangs in the balance, CNET takes a look back at cryptographic machines that kept vital specialists of the German, American, British, Polish and Japanese military forces awake at night [05 Jun 2008]
Cracking open the Alienware Area 51 m15x
Photos The Area 51 m15x is the latest in a long line of quality portable computers from boutique manufacturer Alienware. TechRepublic.com couldn't resist cracking it open to see what makes it tick [02 Jun 2008]
Bletchley Park faces bleak future
Photos The secret home to Britain's World War II codebreaking efforts could face closure in two to three years unless it receives more funding [13 May 2008]
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- Saving Bletchley Park is crucial - 1000103773
- Support for Bletchley - RichardThurston
Babbage's Difference Engine No 2 brought to life
Photos The computing curator of London's Science Museum has spearheaded the construction of Charles Babbage's masterpiece, 150 years after its design [12 May 2008]
Cracking open the Apple MacBook Air
Photos The MacBook Air is thin, light and a testament to what good engineering can accomplish in a notebook computer — so here's a peek inside the ultra-thin machine [18 Mar 2008]
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Cracking open the BlackBerry Curve
Photos When disassembling the BlackBerry Curve 8310, TechRepublic's John Lee is amazed to find the whole device is held together by just six tiny screws [18 Feb 2008]
Cracking open the Radio Shack TRS-80 CoCo
Photos ZDNet.co.uk's Rupert Goodwins takes a look inside a deconstructed Radio Shack TRS-80 Color Computer [06 Feb 2008]
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Chasing memory breakthroughs at IBM Almaden
Photos Scientists at the company's Almaden Research Center are aiming to leap years ahead with new types of hardware for storing data [06 Feb 2008]
Cracking open the Iomega Zip drive
Photos These once-popular drives gave many users their first taste of easy-to-use backup and storage media. But have you ever wondered what's inside? [04 Feb 2008]
Cracking open Apple's iBook G3
Photos The original clamshell iBook from Apple generated almost as much buzz in the IT world as the iPhone has recently. Mark Kaelin takes a look inside [25 Jan 2008]
Building a polycarbonate, all-in-one, LCD PC
Photos George Ou, technical director of ZDNet.com, talks through his decision to build his mother an all-in-one PC and LCD display [24 Jan 2008]
Cracking open the 1974 Altair 8800
Photos Follow step by step as vintage computer aficionado and collector Erik Klein carefully restores a 1974 Altair 8800 to working order [27 Nov 2007]
Software we have known and loved: Lotus Symphony 3
Photos IBM/Lotus recently released an office suite called Symphony — but it isn't the first to go by that name [21 Nov 2007]
Cracking open the Nabaztag Wi-Fi rabbit
Photos Intrigued by the idea of what was inside the plastic bunny with whirling ears and blinky lights, Mark Kaelin dug out his tools — and found a few surprises [15 Nov 2007]
'Geek pride' at the Vintage Computer Festival
Photos Industry veterans and computer hobbyists come together at California's Computer History Museum, to enjoy vintage computers, video games and gadgets [12 Nov 2007]
