The Curious Engineer

The Silicon Underground

2020–2026

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October 2026

  1. Spyware invented October 16, 1995
  2. What was a Token Ring network?
  3. When SCO fired Darl McBride
  4. What happened to Ashton-Tate and dBase
  5. Nvidia’s first GPU: GeForce 256
  6. Ward Christensen, telecommunications pioneer
  7. The Infogrames-Atari merger of 2008
  8. Commodore’s knockoff Atari joystick from 1982
  9. When Apple Records sued Apple Computer
  10. Max Toy, embattled Commodore president
  11. Lotus: Second largest software publisher in the world (in 1983)
  12. The IBM Thinkpad’s 1992 debut
  13. Weekend content through the end of 2026
  14. Cull lumber at Menards
  15. What happened to Activision
  16. The day GIF became free to use, forever

September 2026

  1. IBM PS/2 series
  2. When Internet Explorer passed Netscape for the first time
  3. AMD’s IPO, September 27, 1972
  4. First DVD player announced Sept 26, 1996
  5. Motorola born September 25, 1928
  6. Ebay’s IPO: The rare dotcom survivor
  7. Athlon 64: How AMD turned the tables on Intel
  8. NEC V20 CPU: A bit of pep for an XT
  9. Retro emojis: We had ’em in the 80s and 90s
  10. Computer Reset, Dallas
  11. The 6502 CPU’s odd debut
  12. Diamond Rio PMP300
  13. Osborne Computer’s bankruptcy and the Osborne Effect
  14. The spy in your living room
  15. Atari 2600 launch titles
  16. When the RIAA sued a 12-year-old for MP3 piracy
  17. The first VHS VCR: JVC HR-3300
  18. What happened to Compuserve?
  19. The ill-fated HP-Compaq merger
  20. The September that Never Ended
  21. Microsoft 6502 Basic released as open source Sept 3, 2025
  22. Atari Lynx: The first color handheld game console
  23. Commodore 64 released September 1, 1982

August 2026

  1. Adobe’s August 1994 acquisition of Aldus
  2. Apple prevails over Franklin, August 30, 1983
  3. A Roku alternative streaming device
  4. Dell Optiplex 3040 and 3050 micro
  5. Anandtech shut down abruptly, August 30, 2024
  6. TEAC founded in 1953, sort of
  7. Digg v4 and lessons not learned
  8. Linux first announced August 25, 1991
  9. Windows 95 released August 24, 1995
  10. Microsoft QuickBasic remembered
  11. Adobe Systems IPO August 20, 1986
  12. Chuck Peddle joins MOS Technology, August 19, 1974
  13. What happened to Egghead Software
  14. When the Internet reached half of US households
  15. IBM PC Compact Printer model 5181
  16. Commodore’s purchase of Amiga, August 14, 1984
  17. IBM 5170 PC/AT
  18. IBM PC introduced, August 12, 1981
  19. Red Hat’s successful 1999 IPO
  20. The first pirated MP3
  21. Netscape: The IPO that went boom on its way up and down
  22. Why Microsoft invested $150 million in Apple in 1997
  23. Ebay’s 1995 debut
  24. Radio Shack’s TRS-80: Introduced Aug 3, 1977
  25. The Caldera-SCO merger of 2000

July 2026

  1. Windows NT 4.0: Released to Manufacturing July 31, 1996
  2. When Nintendo sued Blockbuster
  3. Clive Sinclair: a US perspective
  4. IBM PS/2 E: The first Energy Star computer
  5. Advantages and disadvantages of Windows NT 3.1
  6. What happened to ARCNET
  7. David Bunnell, vintage computer magazine publisher
  8. The Caldera-Microsoft Lawsuit of 1996
  9. Amiga 1000: Ten years ahead of its time
  10. The First Microsoft Product
  11. The MCI Worldcom merger, bankruptcy, and scandal
  12. Digital Research’s 1991 merger with Novell
  13. Intel founded July 18, 1968
  14. Reasons for Escom’s bankruptcy
  15. Nintendo Famicom and the secret of Nintendo’s success
  16. Code Red worm, July 13, 2001
  17. Gary Kildall’s death investigation
  18. Monorail: Pioneering $999 PCs from 1996
  19. How Donkey Kong toppled Atari
  20. Ray Kassar, former Atari CEO
  21. Why IBM bought Lotus
  22. Compute!’s Gazette magazine, 1983-1995
  23. Jack Tramiel and Atari
  24. The earliest surviving Tom’s Hardware Guide article

June 2026

  1. Apricot Computers: An underrated British brand
  2. What happened to Altavista
  3. Spyglass: A web browsing pioneer’s IPO
  4. VA Linux’s transformation after leaving the hardware business
  5. Windows 98 shipped June 25, 1998
  6. What went wrong with 3DO
  7. AMD Athlon: AMD’s game changing CPU from 1999
  8. Jay Miner, Atari and Amiga computer designer
  9. Windows ME released June 19, 2000
  10. How a Microsoft product from June 1979 led to the IBM PC
  11. Apple Disk II launched June 1978
  12. GIF’s June 1987 debut
  13. Intel’s Pentium FDIV bug and recall
  14. The failed 3Com and US Robotics merger
  15. Texas Instruments Speak and Spell
  16. Apple II: Launched June 10, 1977
  17. Eagle Computer: The rise and fall of an early PC clone
  18. First Commodore PET sold, June 5, 1977
  19. AMD 486DX4 released June 4, 1995
  20. GE Widescreen 1000: Big time TV for big budgets
  21. Cyrix 486DLC CPU: Introduced June 1992
  22. Intel 8088s and non-Intel non-clones

May 2026

  1. Why people say CRTs don’t have pixels
  2. DR DOS: Revenge of CP/M
  3. AMD K6-2 released May 28, 1998
  4. Bill Gates’ Internet Tidal Wave Microsoft memo
  5. What happened to Tandy computers
  6. Quantum Link: AOL before it was AOL
  7. Advantages and disadvantages of Windows 3.0
  8. Microsoft’s attempted merger with Intuit
  9. Kaypro II launched May 20, 1982
  10. Microsoft Antitrust case of 1998
  11. Cyberrebate.com: The worst dotcom-era idea?
  12. Processor Technology Corporation and the SOL-20
  13. Texas Instruments 486SXL CPU
  14. How Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary became rich
  15. Why the Wannacry outbreak was so bad
  16. Sony Betamax VCR: Born May 10, 1975
  17. Dell buys Alienware, May 8, 2006
  18. Intel Pentium II introduced May 7, 1997
  19. Adobe’s subscription model
  20. First desktop computer: Datapoint 2200
  21. How the Vectrex game console sunk a 124-year-old company
  22. Microsoft’s open sourcing of 86-DOS and what it means
  23. Ad Lib bankruptcy: May 1, 1992

April 2026

  1. Why Commodore went bankrupt in 1994
  2. What happened to Palm Pilots?
  3. TRS-80 Model 100
  4. How Xerox invented the GUI and lost it
  5. Apple IIc: A smaller, sleeker Apple II from 1984
  6. The first Youtube video
  7. When Escom bought Commodore
  8. Timex Sinclair 1000 computer: Revisiting its legacy
  9. Gordon Moore and Moore’s Law
  10. The last MP3 patent
  11. Apple II announced April 16, 1977
  12. Intel Celeron 266 introduced April 15, 1998
  13. Google’s acquisition of Doubleclick
  14. Cyrix 486SLC CPU: Introduced April 13,1992
  15. Intel 486 CPU announced April 10, 1989
  16. Osborne Computer liquidated April 9, 1986
  17. Atari ST introduced April 8, 1985
  18. Hayes compatible modem: What it means
  19. Windows 3.1 released April 6, 1992
  20. AMD K6 released April 2, 1997
  21. Thomas Rattigan, short-lived Commodore CEO
  22. How Tandy bought Radio Shack
  23. How Mark Cuban became rich

March 2026

  1. Quantum hard drives
  2. What happened to Procomm Plus
  3. AMD K5 CPU: Not quite what AMD hoped
  4. The Melissa virus of 1999
  5. Steve Ballmer, Microsoft executive and NBA owner
  6. eMachines never obsolete PCs: More than a meme
  7. What came after 486?
  8. The first 3Dfx card: Orchid Righteous 3D
  9. Magnavox Odyssey 2: 1978-1984
  10. AOL history
  11. Toshiba’s Soviet nuclear submarine scandal
  12. Atari 2600 Pac-Man went on sale March 16, 1982
  13. Microsoft’s 1986 IPO
  14. The 1989 proposal that led to the World Wide Web
  15. Amiga 600: The Amiga no one wanted
  16. When the dotcom bubble burst
  17. IBM PC/XT Model 5160
  18. Blue Monday by New Order released, 1983
  19. Remembering the Michelangelo virus
  20. Homebrew Computer Club in Menlo Park
  21. Intel 486DX2 CPU
  22. AMD Am386 released March 2, 1991

February 2026

  1. What happened to GEM?
  2. Pentium III launched Feb 28, 1999
  3. Game designer Sid Meier born Feb. 24, 1954
  4. What happened to Fry’s Electronics
  5. History of Dell computers
  6. On February 20, 2010 a VIC-20 tweeted
  7. Office Space released Feb. 19, 1999
  8. Windows 2000 release date
  9. First BBS goes online Feb. 16, 1978
  10. Youtube founding date: February 15, 2005
  11. What happened to Prodigy Internet
  12. Deja News: Google’s first acquisition
  13. The last Sony CRT ever made
  14. Why Pets.com failed and became a dotcom joke
  15. Buy.com’s Feb 2000 IPO
  16. The first computer chip
  17. What happened to Conner hard drives
  18. Radio Shack’s 2015 bankruptcy
  19. When Bill Gates claimed to work for $2 an hour
  20. Intel 286 introduced Feb 2, 1982

January 2026

  1. What happened to Packard Bell?
  2. Gateway announces merger with eMachines, 1/30/2004
  3. JTS: short-lived maker of 90s hard drives
  4. What happened to Geocities
  5. What happened to Sun Microsystems
  6. Nvidia’s IPO on January 22, 1999
  7. Why Intel stopped making motherboards
  8. Transmeta Crusoe CPU
  9. What happened to Blackberry?
  10. Year 2038 problem
  11. When the VCR became popular and legal
  12. AMD’s acquisition of NexGen
  13. NCSA: The unsung hero of Internet history
  14. When Gamestop stock surged 50% for inexplicable reasons
  15. Information Superhighway enters the chat, 1994
  16. AOL-Time Warner merger of January 2000
  17. AST Computers and AST Research
  18. Amiga 500 and Amiga 2000 introduction date
  19. Amiga’s debut demonstration at CES, 1984
  20. Commodore 128 introduced Jan 5, 1985
  21. Microsoft Bob: Microsoft’s biggest flop of the 1990s
  22. Al Alcorn born January 1, 1948

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December 2025

  1. Windows for Workgroups 3.11
  2. What happened to Abit motherboards
  3. 1984: The last perfect year for 8-bit home computers
  4. Time names the computer its person of the year, 1982
  5. The first web server
  6. The Egghead breach of 2000
  7. What happened to Maxtor hard drives
  8. The biggest CRT ever made: Sony’s PVM-4300
  9. The most excessive dotcom: Internet America
  10. Altair 8800 kits went on sale December 19, 1974
  11. MP3.com launched December 17, 1997
  12. IBM ends sales of OS/2, December 16, 2005
  13. What happened to 3dfx
  14. How Jeff Bruette trolled his boss, Jack Tramiel
  15. 65c816 CPU: The chip in the Apple IIgs, SNES, and more
  16. Why IBM left the PC business in 2006
  17. VA Linux: The biggest dotcom IPO
  18. Atari’s earnings miss in December 1982
  19. The death star that blew up IBM’s hard drive business
  20. Apple IIGS discontinued December 1992
  21. Playstation audiophile CD player
  22. Fairchild Channel F: First of its kind

November 2025

  1. Pong introduced November 29, 1972
  2. Tandy 2000: Released Nov 28, 1983
  3. Microsoft trademark registered November 1976
  4. Babbage’s remembered
  5. Why AOL bought Netscape
  6. Max Headroom incident of Nov 22, 1987
  7. How the Tandy 2000 doomed Tandy computers
  8. Tandy 1000 models
  9. Push button telephones introduced November 18, 1963
  10. The rise and fall of Syquest
  11. Ira Velinsky, industrial designer for Commodore and Atari
  12. AOpen: The king of whitebox PCs
  13. What happened to 3Com?
  14. Microsoft Windows first announced Nov 10, 1983
  15. What happened to Transmeta, the last big dotcom IPO
  16. Micron Computers’ rise and fall
  17. The first Compaq computer
  18. Etoys.com and its rapid rise and fall

October 2025

  1. When Federico Faggin left Intel
  2. IBM’s 2018 Red Hat acquisition
  3. TI-99/4A discontinued October 28, 1983
  4. IBM PC 5150 Revision A vs Revision B
  5. Windows 8 released Oct 26, 2012
  6. Windows XP released October 25, 2001
  7. Windows 7 released Oct 22, 2009
  8. How to split an MP3 into individual tracks for free
  9. Tune Windows to use your SSD more effectively
  10. Who bought Gateway computers?
  11. AI’s parallels with the dotcom bubble
  12. When Nova introduced hacking to the mainstream

September 2025

  1. Irving Gould and Commodore
  2. What Steve Jobs learned in exile from Apple
  3. Amiga CD32: Commodore’s last stand
  4. The FBI’s raid on an MP3 pirate
  5. Tengen and its legal battles with Nintendo
  6. Google incorporated September 4, 1998
  7. Wayne Green, computer journalism pioneer
  8. Google Chrome launched September 2, 2008

August 2025

  1. Intel Celeron 300A introduced August 24, 1998
  2. Legend of Zelda released August 22, 1987
  3. Why Intel acquired McAfee, then un-bought it
  4. Internet Explorer first released August 16, 1995
  5. How many IBM PCs were sold
  6. Andy Warhol’s lost Amiga art found
  7. Colecovison: the hard-luck 1982 console

July 2025

  1. What a bit bucket is
  2. What went wrong for Yahoo

June 2025

  1. Coleco Adam computer

May 2025

  1. Electronic Arts founded May 28, 1982

April 2025

  1. When Chrome passed Internet Explorer for the first time
  2. Run Windows 11 on unsupported hardware
  3. Webvan: The too much, too early dotcom
  4. When Microsoft retired Clippy
  5. Microsoft founded April 4, 1975
  6. Anandtech made its debut April 3, 1997

March 2025

  1. Troubleshooting long scan times in Tenable Security Center
  2. Why we call software updates patches

February 2025

  1. What happened to CompUSA?
  2. Andy Warhol died February 22, 1987
  3. M.U.L.E.: 1983’s best video game
  4. Should you use a face scan, fingerprint, or passkey?
  5. Google Fiber announced February 10, 2010

January 2025

  1. Advantages and disadvantages of Lotus 1-2-3
  2. NCSA Mosaic: The mother of all web browsers
  3. IBM’s big black and blue 1992
  4. RUN: The magazine for Commodore 64, 128 and VIC-20 owners
  5. VIA Cyrix III and C3 CPUs

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December 2024

  1. What was the Y2K problem and what was the solution?
  2. If Irvin Mainway made computer accessories, he’d make this
  3. Charles Babbage born 12/26/1791
  4. Cashing in on GIF by charging royalties
  5. Why conservatives like retro too
  6. A&M Records sues Napster, December 6, 1999
  7. Never give a cop your phone and other security tips

November 2024

  1. First handheld game console: Milton Bradley Microvision
  2. Internet Explorer 2.0 released November 22, 1995
  3. Blue Chip BCD/5.25 disk drive
  4. Vortex86: Revenge of the Rise MP6 from the 1990s
  5. Compute Magazine, 1979-1994
  6. Asus SP97-V motherboard and SIS 5598 chipset
  7. Commodore could have owned AOL

October 2024

  1. Ghislaine Maxwell’s connection to the dotcom boom
  2. How to choose a VPN service
  3. MS-DOS 4.0: A closer look
  4. Overcoming learned helplessness in security
  5. Creative Computing launched October 1974
  6. Configure mystery jumperless NE2000 cards

September 2024

  1. AMD 5×86: Announced September 1995
  2. How many Amigas Commodore sold
  3. Napster’s end of the road
  4. 80 Micro: The magazine for TRS-80 owners
  5. Jerry Sanders, cofounder of AMD
  6. What’s the Frequency, Kenneth remembered

August 2024

  1. Marx stream line steam type train set 4822
  2. RTX 3050 GPU in an HP Elitedesk 800 SFF PC
  3. Compaq Presario: Born Aug 27, 1993
  4. Burger Time: Underrated 1982 arcade game
  5. Marx diesel freight train set 9611
  6. Working with Andy Warhol: Jeff Bruette’s recollections
  7. Sega Genesis: The Un-Nintendo
  8. Abandonware: Is it preservation or just plain piracy?

July 2024

  1. 12 retro items you can still find at thrift stores
  2. Windows NT 4.0 on the Power Macintosh after years of rumors
  3. Linkedin green Opentowork banner hacking
  4. Using AC and DC at the same time on a train layout
  5. What ruined thrift stores
  6. One last run
  7. A USB floppy drive for retro computing
  8. Using a dual fan GPU in a Dell Optiplex 3010
  9. Chips and Technologies Super 386: A forbidden CPU
  10. Commodore 2031 disk drive: Last of its kind

June 2024

  1. Marx steam type freight set 9363
  2. Intel Pentium Pro: How it could succeed and fail simultaneously
  3. CMD FD-2000 and 4000: High density and beyond for the C-64
  4. Franklin Computer: Rise and fall and reinvention
  5. Marx diesel freight train set 9622
  6. Commodore 1670 modem 1200
  7. Marx 52750 train set: The Champion
  8. Marx Cannonball train set number 4362
  9. UMC Green CPU: The forbidden 486
  10. Reattach Activision Atari 2600 cartridge labels
  11. Maverick: Final-generation C-64 copier

May 2024

  1. Should Atari own all of classic retro?
  2. Marx 25760 train set: The Allegheny
  3. Why SID chips go bad sitting on a shelf
  4. First CD burner: Sony, Yamaha, or Philips?
  5. Marx 52844 train set
  6. CD-ROM drives in 286 and 386 PCs
  7. Commodore PLA: The breadbin killer
  8. Marx diesel type electric train set 45225
  9. Piracy on the Commodore 64: A memoir
  10. Marx Stream Line Steam Type Electrical Train 52925
  11. Fast Hack’em: The best C-64 disk copier?
  12. What a DASD is besides curious IBM terminology
  13. Nintendo in a small town, 1987
  14. Marx steam freight train set 9610
  15. MSD Super Disk drive for the Commodore 64 and PET

April 2024

  1. Why not use MS-DOS 4.0?
  2. Marx 55950 train set
  3. FSD-2 Excelerator Plus disk drive
  4. Third generation video game consoles
  5. Atari Portfolio: Pioneering palmtop PC
  6. Marx train set 3994: A classic combination
  7. First CD-ROM drive: Philips CM-100
  8. How to use Commodore disk drives
  9. Emerson Arcadia 2001: Peak 1982 video game console
  10. Marx diesel freight train set 9644
  11. NEC V20 vs Intel 80186
  12. HP 200LX and related palmtops
  13. Second-generation video game consoles
  14. Interact Home Computer from 1978
  15. Marx diesel passenger train set 9639
  16. 486SX vs 486DX: A closer look
  17. Coleco’s “deliberately bad” Donkey Kong for Atari

March 2024

  1. Marx steam freight train set 21336M and 21337M
  2. Why the Imagination Machine failed
  3. How to conduct a technical interview
  4. Marx diesel freight train set 9629
  5. Store controllers and cables safely without damaging them
  6. PC mouse connector types
  7. Hash collisions in computer security
  8. Marx Pioneer Express electric train set
  9. 80s computer brands
  10. Resume hacks for your first (or next) security job
  11. Marx steam type freight set 9365
  12. APF Imagination Machine
  13. APF MP1000 game console from 1978
  14. You don’t need cyber threat intelligence. Buy this instead

February 2024

  1. Marx diesel freight train set 8142
  2. Use an IBM 5170 without a battery
  3. Is CISSP worth it in 2024? How to know
  4. Marx steam freight train set 50875
  5. Why we like retro
  6. SvarDOS: FreeDOS for XT-class systems
  7. Wireshark security risk and how to manage it
  8. Marx Happi-Time 9624 train set from 1953
  9. Drill bits keep breaking? Try this!
  10. Scratchy the Micron
  11. Why Gateway computers failed in the enterprise
  12. Marx steam freight train set 50885
  13. Commodore 8050 disk drive
  14. How Tenable sets plugin severity
  15. Marx 4915S Steam type electric train set

January 2024

  1. What peer benchmarking is in vulnerability management
  2. Rax restaurant chain from the 1980s
  3. Trace an outlet to a circuit breaker
  4. Lionel 6014 box car
  5. Pallet wood basement ceiling
  6. What happened to NCIX
  7. Why physical destruction of RAM is sometimes necessary
  8. Marx 526 train set
  9. Does finished software really exist?
  10. How to disassemble a pallet
  11. Disassemble and reassemble a Lionel 600-series NW2 locomotive
  12. DEC Rainbow 100
  13. Rough Riders toys 1980s
  14. Ryobi PBP002 battery review
  15. Marx train set 4218 for W.T. Grant
  16. What network drivers are
  17. The best type-in I ever typed in: Crossroads, by Steve Harter

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December 2023

  1. Marx freight set 4205
  2. Commodore 8250 disk drive
  3. We’ll leave the TV and the radio behind ’80s song lyric
  4. Refurbishing a Lionel 6014 boxcar
  5. Panasonic Business Partner 1650: Tandy in disguise
  6. Plug falls out of outlet? Here’s how to fix it
  7. SCCM vs WSUS
  8. Marx train set 4318 for W.T. Grant
  9. Stomper 4x4s: Miniature off-road 80s fun
  10. Intel 80186 CPU: So misunderstood
  11. Marx Happi-Time 9640 train set
  12. What happened to Adaptec?
  13. Reduce the pinginess of a mechanical keyboard

November 2023

  1. Marx train set 4338 for W.T. Grant
  2. What defense in depth is in information security
  3. Are Black Friday tools any good?
  4. Ryobi Black Friday $79 combo kit review
  5. Manage Engine Patch Manager review: Just what you needed
  6. Hosts file to stop Windows from spying on you
  7. Jetway 386WB motherboard
  8. Marx Happi-Time 9605 train set
  9. DEC Tulip packet drivers for DOS
  10. Fix a dried out can of spray foam
  11. Protect your scanning credentials with defense in depth
  12. Marx Rambler train set number 4336
  13. Fix 3.5-inch floppy drives with these easy tips
  14. Remove your personal contact information from Google
  15. How W.T. Grant broke capitalism
  16. Marx train set 4351
  17. Lego string substitute

October 2023

  1. Insignia RCA to HDMI converter not working
  2. Marx diesel freight train set 8612
  3. Mitigate curl vulnerabilities on Windows
  4. Build an IBM 5170
  5. CVE-2023-23378 Print 3D RCE remediation
  6. A simple restoration of a Marx 591 windup
  7. What a netbook is
  8. CVE-2023-36739 Microsoft 3D Viewer Remote Code Execution remediation
  9. Why Steve Garvey isn’t in the Hall of Fame
  10. A life hack to keep cables organized
  11. What size screwdriver for electrical work
  12. Marx Happi-Time 9635 train set
  13. Is it time to stop buying used Dell Optiplexes?
  14. Whitelist vs blacklist
  15. Should you buy an IBM PS/2?

September 2023

  1. Marx 29609 train set
  2. CVE-2023-33140 OneNote Spoofing remediation
  3. 80s penny loafers
  4. Tandy CM-11 monitor
  5. Marx Happi-Time 9632 train set
  6. Early home computer blank 80
  7. Radio Shack Armatron
  8. Force a Nessus agent scan on demand
  9. Coming soon to 7597 S Lindbergh: Harbor Freight Tools
  10. Marx steam freight train set 52875
  11. Kenny Lofton’s Hall of Fame case
  12. Human after all 80s song lyric: Something About You
  13. When Marx sold trains at Radio Shack: The Hot Shot
  14. Five Alive juice: The taste of the 80s
  15. Tandy MMS-10 under-monitor speakers
  16. Tandy CM-5 monitor

August 2023

  1. Marx 80982 and 30982 Wabash gondola
  2. 80s and 90s tight rolled jeans
  3. Windows 7 retro gaming PC
  4. Reggie candy bar remembered
  5. Marx Happi-Time 9618 train set
  6. 80s Swatch watches
  7. EGA on a CGA monitor
  8. How to find the overflow in a toilet
  9. Marx Allstate train set 9725
  10. Why Orel Hershiser isn’t in the Hall of Fame
  11. 80s jam shorts
  12. Cleaning vinegar vs distilled vinegar
  13. What happened to Tipton Appliances
  14. Marx Happi-Time 9616 train set
  15. MFM vs RLL hard drives
  16. Cusanelli’s, St. Louis
  17. Mac Bluetooth stopped working? Four ways to fix it
  18. Marx 9625 train set
  19. Triton Turbo XT
  20. How many Atari Jaguar games are there?

July 2023

  1. Why Eric Davis isn’t in the Hall of Fame
  2. Marx 36000 C&O gondola
  3. Toilet hard to flush? Try the simple things first
  4. Berlinger Dairy, St Louis
  5. Amiga tank mouse
  6. What a rivet counter is in model railroading
  7. Red Bird Lanes, St. Louis
  8. Windows emergency restart
  9. Why Darryl Strawberry isn’t in the Hall of Fame
  10. Marx Happi-Time 9617 train set
  11. Mark Twain cinema, Sunset Hills
  12. Micro League Baseball
  13. Change mouse direction on monitor
  14. Marx 347100 gondola
  15. A retro style mechanical keyboard
  16. IBM 5170 TEMPEST variant

June 2023

  1. What a shake-the-box kit is
  2. Notepad++ wrap text
  3. Why did people like Atari?
  4. Why Lou Whitaker isn’t in the Hall of Fame
  5. Marx Allstate train set 9816
  6. Windows XP on SSD
  7. Are IBM and Lenovo the same company?
  8. Lionel 1011 transformer repair
  9. Packard Bell Corner PC
  10. Why Jack Clark isn’t in the Hall of Fame
  11. Marx Western Pacific train set 7215
  12. Why Fred Lynn isn’t in the Hall of Fame
  13. What does OLE stand for
  14. Is St Louis known for flooding?
  15. Marx train set 4965

May 2023

  1. How to clean RAM sticks
  2. Connect a VCR to a smart TV
  3. Marx diesel freight train set 9500
  4. Why Bobby Grich isn’t in the Hall of Fame
  5. What happened to Blockbuster
  6. Is a 500 GB SSD enough for gaming?
  7. Marx PRR Merchandise Service boxcar
  8. Connect a Wii to a smart TV
  9. How much weight Command strips can hold
  10. Hisense TV won’t power on: the 1 minute fix
  11. Marx 59 stock car
  12. Is Purple Power safe on paint?
  13. Why my Ethernet cable is blinking orange
  14. Pentium MMX retro gaming PC
  15. Marx 555 refrigerator car
  16. MFM vs IDE hard drives
  17. Insignia RCA to HDMI converter review
  18. Garage door goes back up? Try this

April 2023

  1. Miniscribe Brick: A hard drive scandal
  2. Marx The Reliable freight set 2905
  3. What does legacy mean in software
  4. Notepad++ Go to line
  5. Why dimensional lumber has rounded edges
  6. I thought turkeys could fly
  7. Marx train set 3987
  8. Record video in VLC
  9. Blowing into NES cartridges
  10. Can a light switch go bad? How to tell
  11. Line vs load when wiring
  12. Ace Hardware garbage disposals
  13. Marx State of Maine boxcar
  14. What an error in baseball is
  15. What are tamper-resistant outlets?
  16. The Bell and Howell Apple II
  17. Marx The Meteor Diesel Freight set 2915
  18. Handling API pagination with Python
  19. Replace carriage returns with commas in Notepad++
  20. Microsoft Softcard: How it transformed the company

March 2023

  1. Desktop keyboard drawer: Unheralded retro accessory
  2. Marx train set #25000
  3. Milwaukee tools at Lowe’s
  4. Where to buy steel wool
  5. What is a dataframe in Python?
  6. Marx train set #26259 from Montgomery Ward
  7. Fast Copy: Best and fastest copier for Windows?
  8. Atari Jaguar won’t power on? Try this
  9. FreeDOS on physical hardware
  10. Marx 556 caboose
  11. Fixing a sticky Teac 5.25 inch floppy drive
  12. What manual testing is in security
  13. WordPress Jetpack stats won’t load? Try this
  14. Marx 400 locomotive
  15. Is a smartphone a computer?
  16. How frequently Linux updates
  17. Stereo SID for Commodore 64 and 128
  18. Marx train set 4222
  19. Why the Atari Jaguar is so expensive

February 2023

  1. Phone charger won’t plug in? Check this
  2. IBM PC DOS 2000: An underrated DOS
  3. Marx train set 761
  4. Hubbell Twist-Tite outlet
  5. Why Jeff Kent isn’t in the Hall of Fame
  6. Marx 552 gondola
  7. 16 GB in a Dell Latitude E6420
  8. Make PDFs searchable in Windows
  9. IBM 4863 monitor
  10. Clear CMOS password on an Intel AL440LX
  11. Marx Sinclair tank car
  12. Write files to an img file in Windows
  13. Chocolatey package manager for Windows
  14. Why Fernando Valenzuela isn’t in the Hall of Fame
  15. Marx 41850 train set: The Mohawk
  16. Atari 400 vs Commodore VIC-20

January 2023

  1. Soup up your Tandy 3-in-1 with a V20
  2. Marx Eagle Express Diesel Freight train set 7360
  3. Is Ryobi a Home Depot brand? It depends
  4. What dot pitch is on a monitor or graphics
  5. Wolfenstein 3D for CGA and Tandy
  6. Marx 553 tank car
  7. Does the ground go up or down on an outlet?
  8. Upgrade a Debian web server to the next version
  9. Your New Year’s resolutions are shot. Now what?
  10. Lionel TT-100 and TS-162 installation instructions
  11. Gotek troubleshooting
  12. Writeback vs writethrough cache
  13. Remembering Computer Shopper
  14. Lionel 6457 caboose
  15. Allsop Metal Art stand #33306 review
  16. Identify a cable with a multimeter

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December 2022

  1. When Lionel bulbs won’t light
  2. Convert CGA or EGA to VGA (or MCGA)
  3. What size screws to use for a GPU fan
  4. What a craftsman kit is in model trains
  5. Fix slow hard drive access on early PCs
  6. Fix a black screen in Firefox
  7. Write a downloaded img file to compact flash
  8. A cheap home alternative to electroplating
  9. Are LED light bulbs recyclable?
  10. Qualys superseded updates and caveats
  11. Tandy 3-in-1 expansion review for the 1000HX and EX
  12. Lionel scenic plots
  13. Add serial and PS/2 ports to a Dell Optiplex computer
  14. Watermelon KPI meaning and examples
  15. Tandy 1000 and 1000SX upgrades
  16. What the build dates on Lionel trains mean

November 2022

  1. Rebuild an XLSX file in Python
  2. Are Ecosmart light bulbs good? My experience
  3. Amiga 500 motherboard revisions
  4. Update Windows without rebooting
  5. Prevent tools from rusting
  6. Twitter vs Mastodon
  7. Set up a Marx train set
  8. Intellivision launch titles
  9. The white walnut: Butternut
  10. What a pocket veto is
  11. Wire an American Flyer whistling billboard
  12. Does mowing leaves work? Usually
  13. Atari 800 vs Commodore 64
  14. Milton Bradley Bumpalow village
  15. Lithium grease vs silicone grease
  16. Intellivision System Changer

October 2022

  1. What a security champion is
  2. How to clean Marx tin lithographed trains
  3. What a sprite is
  4. Mac stuck on lock screen? A no-reboot fix
  5. Colecovision launch titles
  6. Marx 2150 Hollywood Bungalow
  7. How many Commodore 64s sold
  8. NES launch titles
  9. What silicone grease is used for
  10. Nonpareil tinplate trains
  11. Do the date codes in a retro computer matter?
  12. Types of keyboard connections, illustrated
  13. Is it cheaper to repair or replace a refrigerator? It depends
  14. Lionel Laser train set
  15. Who makes Insignia TVs for Best Buy
  16. Will CRT monitors make a comeback?
  17. Atari 400 versus 800

September 2022

  1. American Flyer whistling billboard
  2. Declutter the title bar in Microsoft Office
  3. Who makes Insignia appliances for Best Buy
  4. American Flyer Gabe the Lamplighter
  5. Why Keith Hernandez isn’t in the Hall of Fame
  6. What 1990s kitchen cabinets were made of
  7. What is tin lithography, or tin litho?
  8. What adjusted OPS means
  9. Paint vs primer primer
  10. Lionel semi flat black
  11. What raising the grain means
  12. Why Roger Maris isn’t in the Hall of Fame
  13. What is a Lionel E-unit?

August 2022

  1. What does dot matrix mean?
  2. Wire nut not working? Try this
  3. Why Dave Parker isn’t in the Hall of Fame
  4. Japanese tin trains
  5. Advantages of CRT over LCD
  6. Are thrift stores open on Sunday?
  7. Colber electric train accessories
  8. Why East St Louis is so poor
  9. How to read a Qualys scan report
  10. Marx 6-inch observation car
  11. How to merge data in Excel
  12. Coleco Expansion Module 1
  13. Marx Montclair passenger car
  14. IBM PC/AT 5170 hard drive types
  15. Why Dave Stieb isn’t in the Hall of Fame
  16. VTI 73192 E4002: The Atari knockoff

July 2022

  1. Marx Bogota passenger car
  2. Soak Weed Eater string in water to make it last longer
  3. IBM 5162 PC/XT 286: The AT in XT clothing
  4. Motherboard plastic standoff removal tool
  5. Are Lionel trains O gauge?
  6. FFMPEG can merge videos, here’s how
  7. Plantronics Colorplus: Forgotten PC graphics
  8. Is a SOC analyst a good job
  9. Marx roadbed track
  10. Remove Unicode and extended ASCII in Notepad++
  11. Atari 2600 emulator for the VIC-20
  12. Protecto Enterprizes: What is was and wasn’t
  13. Is OO gauge the same as HO?
  14. VCR won’t accept date? Here’s the fix
  15. Are battery wet dry vacuums good?

June 2022

  1. Lionel 116 station
  2. DOS memory management on a 286
  3. What the purpose is of RAID adapters
  4. How to disassemble a Lionel 1110 or similar Scout locomotive
  5. Can you use Windows 95 in 2022?
  6. Lead acid vs lithium batteries
  7. Is a smartphone worth fixing?
  8. Best postwar Lionel transformer
  9. Dell E1912HF and the Amiga
  10. Why Dale Murphy isn’t in the Hall of Fame
  11. What a Torx screwdriver is used for
  12. What does silicone mean when wiring trains?
  13. 3Com 3c509 in an 8088-based PC/XT
  14. How to fix Minecraft not installing
  15. Crooked handle on Ryobi lawn mower
  16. Lionel T-Rail track
  17. What eggshell finish is

May 2022

  1. MCGA vs VGA
  2. Marx Glendale station
  3. Why Don Mattingly isn’t in the Hall of Fame
  4. Why did the Atari ST fail?
  5. Ego electric mower won’t start? Here’s help.
  6. Marx Girard station
  7. IBM 7496 Executive Workstation
  8. What solder mask is
  9. Why S traps are illegal in drains
  10. What is Delrin?
  11. Are electric lawn mowers quiet?
  12. Can dogs spell?
  13. Is Windows XP obsolete or is it retro?
  14. How soon is too soon to get another dog? It depends
  15. Qualys duplicate assets
  16. Why electric lawn mowers are better than gas
  17. Marx Oak Park station

April 2022

  1. Lionel 115 station
  2. Pros and cons of Compaqs as retro computers
  3. Remove a sticker from a laptop
  4. Hart electric mower won’t start? Try this.
  5. Convert Marx 7-inch to 8 wheels
  6. Tandy 1000 vs Commodore 64
  7. Samsung QVO vs EVO
  8. What nickel silver track is
  9. What happened to Sega
  10. What is solder made of?
  11. f strings in Python
  12. In memoriam: Angel, 2005-2022, best dog ever
  13. No Ox ID for model railroading
  14. What flux is made of
  15. What is a DOS game?
  16. Why circuit boards are green

March 2022

  1. Unique Art Manufacturing Co of New Jersey
  2. Tandy 1000 vs PCjr
  3. Where is Route 66 in St. Louis?
  4. Cast iron vs ductile iron vs steel
  5. Lionel Scout motor repair
  6. What is lithium grease used for
  7. Transfer cassette to digital
  8. Cleaning American Flyer track
  9. What dedicated wireless backhaul is
  10. Are cassette tapes worth anything?
  11. Fix slimy plastic
  12. Model Products Corporation, or MPC
  13. How to burn a BIOS
  14. How much did VHS tapes cost in the 80s?
  15. Fighter Jets on Chouteau Avenue, St Louis
  16. Standard Gauge and Wide Gauge toy trains
  17. Can you put a computer on carpet? Yes, with caveats

February 2022

  1. What happened to Eat-Rite Diner
  2. Who was Roy Cohn?
  3. Should I buy a used office chair?
  4. How many pages should your resume be?
  5. Lionel’s Trutrack experiment
  6. Tandy 1000 value
  7. Filmora not recognizing MP4 files? The fix.
  8. How Bill Gates became rich
  9. Marx Standard Gauge – believe it!
  10. Save as in Office 365
  11. Why the hard drive is called C
  12. Radio Shack fire chief’s helmet: a passive aggressive gift
  13. Bing: Masters of Nuremberg lithography
  14. What does Unix like mean?
  15. Line count in Notepad

January 2022

  1. Dorfan: Bleeding edge electric trains
  2. Cyber Kill Chain vs Mitre ATT&CK
  3. National Lead Co, St Louis
  4. How to disassemble a Tandy 1000EX
  5. American Flyer Trainorama backdrop
  6. MS-DOS 3.31: The DOS you couldn’t have
  7. What is the Up South
  8. Revive the paint on electric trains
  9. Update Windows third-party utilities semi-automatically
  10. Lionel 6111 and 6121 log and pipe cars
  11. Fixing my IBM 5170 motherboard
  12. Resume downloads with wget
  13. Mississippi Nights, St. Louis
  14. Will vintage American Flyer trains run on Lionel S gauge Fastrack?
  15. Connect a Tandy 1000 to a television
  16. Is open source software safe to use?
  17. How common are Zero Day attacks?

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December 2021

  1. Move your user profile to a new Windows 11 PC
  2. Lowe’s Flex power tools
  3. Change your computer name in Windows 11
  4. Why does my Roblox keep disconnecting?
  5. Clean and polish Bakelite
  6. What is a user story?
  7. Logitech C7 mouse: So bad it’s good
  8. Exit full screen in WinUAE
  9. What are the measurements of Lionel postwar trains?
  10. Windows XP retro gaming PC
  11. Ryobi electric lawn mower won’t start? Try this.
  12. What is recursion in Python? Here’s an example
  13. Dept 56 Village Express Electric train set
  14. IBM 5170 battery
  15. Mouse moves with arrow keys? The fix
  16. Brains 25 cents: The story behind the meme
  17. How big is an N scale train?
  18. Why does my wifi say not secure?

November 2021

  1. Install Windows 11 on an unsupported CPU
  2. Scroll lock on laptop
  3. Don’t use vape fluid in your Marx smoke unit
  4. Floppy drive pinout
  5. Abandoned castle in Oakville, Mo.
  6. Local account in Windows 11
  7. Lionel smoke pellets
  8. Where are my apps in Android 12?
  9. Add a TCP/IP printer in Windows 11
  10. What motivated the FBI e-mail hacker
  11. What is a Lionel Pullmor motor?
  12. Cheap Windows 11 PC options
  13. What batteries don’t leak?
  14. History of St. Louis style pizza
  15. What is basswood?
  16. How to tell which PCI express slot I have
  17. When DOS was removed from Windows
  18. Check a power supply for safety

October 2021

  1. Private vs public IP address
  2. How to tell what motherboard you have
  3. What is denatured alcohol?
  4. What WHIP is in baseball
  5. Is data privacy important?
  6. Recommended operating systems for vintage PCs
  7. What whitewood is at Home Depot or Lowe’s
  8. Nolan Ryan didn’t win any Cy Young Awards: Here’s why
  9. What does period correct mean?
  10. Fix wp-cron.php to improve WordPress speed and reliability
  11. Media Vision Pro Audio Spectrum
  12. Windows 10 not recognizing new CPU: The fix
  13. Cutting the bloat out of Windows 95
  14. LinkedIn is annoying? Tips to make it better
  15. Using Rustoleum plastic paint and how it works
  16. ISA vs EISA vs VLB

September 2021

  1. 486DX-50 versus DX2
  2. Disk cache vs memory cache
  3. IBM 486SLC2 CPU: When a clone isn’t a clone
  4. How to glue a crack in wood
  5. How plastic can rust, sort of
  6. Best retro network card
  7. What is ASM in security?
  8. How to get rid of the small keyboard on Android
  9. A personal announcement regarding the blog
  10. Roku remote stopped working? Try this
  11. Mental health and infosec
  12. Why aren’t computers getting cheaper?
  13. Gluing end to end
  14. Why is it so hard to find computer parts?
  15. Word line wrap not working? Here’s the fix
  16. Windows 11 on unsupported hardware
  17. Can a computer last 10 years? It depends
  18. Why Dwight Gooden isn’t in the Hall of Fame

August 2021

  1. First generation IBM PC monitors
  2. Reveal codes in Word like Wordperfect
  3. 386SX vs 386DX: a misunderstood difference
  4. Aztech sound cards: Underrated OPL3
  5. Right to hire meaning, pros and cons
  6. What paperwork you need for a mortgage pre-approval
  7. 286 vs 386SX
  8. Gas stove not lighting? Try this
  9. IBM Model M vs Cherry MX Blue
  10. Apple Macintosh vs Lisa
  11. Should you update your BIOS? The pros and cons
  12. Hide glue vs PVA wood glue
  13. DOS boot menu explained
  14. How to clean a membrane gaming keyboard

July 2021

  1. How to paint baseboard trim white
  2. Commodore 64 replacement rubber feet
  3. Rebuild machines without making duplicates in Qualys or Tenable
  4. Refurbish a vintage ball mouse
  5. Led vs lead past tense
  6. Choose your passwords carefully
  7. How you view message headers in Outlook
  8. What happened to Faraday Electronics?
  9. What does the Qualys cloud agent do?
  10. Windows Zip folders slow? The fix.
  11. Ryobi Brushless 20 in. Walk Behind Push Lawn Mower review
  12. Who makes Masterforce hand tools for Menards?
  13. Force a Qualys Cloud Agent scan
  14. Is a dryer worth repairing? Yes, and here’s why
  15. What was MR BIOS?
  16. How much weight drywall can hold without a stud

June 2021

  1. How to use command line FTP
  2. How to answer where you see yourself in five years
  3. Windows 10 black screen after hibernate: Try this
  4. Diamond Stars baseball cards
  5. What are Cherry Red switches?
  6. Apple IIc power supply pinout
  7. What comes after cloud?
  8. CPU fan error troubleshooting
  9. Iterate over a CSV in Python and Pandas
  10. How to make color match wood putty
  11. Qualys vulnerability vs discovery scan
  12. What to do if you can’t scan your whole network
  13. What happened to Southwestern Bell
  14. How to read a Nessus scan report
  15. Lockheed Martin Cyber Kill Chain explained
  16. What to do when you know a pedophile (and what not to)
  17. Vulnerabilities without CVE
  18. Why is lumber so expensive?
  19. Vulnerability management metrics
  20. How long it takes to get a security job with no experience
  21. Remove cigarette smell from books

May 2021

  1. Automatic updates vs managed updates
  2. What do Home Depot prices mean? How to decode them
  3. FFMPEG can remove audio: Here’s how
  4. Windows vulnerabilities on Macs in Qualys scans
  5. Mower deck clogs with grass? Try this.
  6. Pantera’s Pizza history
  7. Atari 7800 vs NES
  8. Gmail subscriptions flooding? How to deal.
  9. Make a simple pivot table in Python
  10. Cattle vs pets in IT security
  11. MOS 74LS logic chips
  12. Ryobi 13 inch ONE+ Lawn Mower review
  13. Game box repair
  14. Error 0x8007025d installing Windows 10
  15. Marx presidential figures
  16. Is collecting retro games worth it?
  17. Super glue vs epoxy

April 2021

  1. Compaq Presario 425 and 433
  2. What size nut driver for computers?
  3. Cyrix processor chips: In memoriam
  4. Is Bittorrent safe? A security pro’s take
  5. CIA triad of security
  6. Is Bittorrent legal?
  7. Are password managers a good idea?
  8. Best epoxy for plastic
  9. Are VPNs illegal?
  10. Atari 2600 vs 7800
  11. How long for caulk to dry before painting?
  12. Median vs mean vs mode
  13. Ryobi battery won’t charge? Two possible fixes
  14. How to backup a WordPress site
  15. Commodore 1571 disk drive
  16. Can you paint semi gloss over flat paint?
  17. Limit CPU usage in MariaDB
  18. Retrobright with sunlight and no chemicals
  19. Is investment property tax deductible?

March 2021

  1. What happened to Charter Communications?
  2. Jose Uribe baseball card value: Not what you’re hoping
  3. Pinginfoview: A free Windows ping sweep tool
  4. Who makes Masterforce power tools for Menards?
  5. ZIP vs RAR
  6. Xxcopy vs Xcopy file copy utilities
  7. Can’t plug into outlet? How to open tamper resistant outlets
  8. json.loads vs json.dumps in Python
  9. Payless Cashways remembered
  10. Are electric mowers worth the money?
  11. Are hybrid cars worth it?
  12. Can a neutral wire shock you? It shouldn’t but it can
  13. Do solar panels work during a power outage?
  14. What is styrene?
  15. How much do GFCI outlets cost?
  16. Are expensive HDMI cables worth it?
  17. Is AT&T Fiber good? Is AT&T Fiber worth it?
  18. How to coupon Harbor Freight

February 2021

  1. Amstrad PCs: The PC1512 and PC1640
  2. FPGA vs retro hardware
  3. Fix the WordPress critical error on your website
  4. Monitor for a Commodore VIC-20
  5. Make a Word hyperlink UNC path
  6. Late majority in marketing
  7. Gzip vs Zip
  8. Which side of an outlet is hot?
  9. Crystal Palace, St Louis
  10. Are password generators safe?
  11. Three prong plug wiring diagram
  12. The killer POKE for the Commodore PET
  13. Keep pipes from freezing
  14. Picking a setting for your model railroad
  15. What is a 169 IP address?
  16. How many outlets can be on a 20 amp circuit?
  17. How to use Deoxit D5
  18. How to remove wire insulation without cutting wire

January 2021

  1. Looking back at the Challenger disaster through Gen-X eyes
  2. O gauge curved track dimensions
  3. Phone turns off in cold weather? Here’s the fix
  4. A Linux sudo bug
  5. How to use a contour gauge
  6. How often should you replace thermal paste?
  7. Convert AVI to WMV for free. No fooling.
  8. O27 scale
  9. IBM PS/Valuepoint
  10. City Hospital, St Louis
  11. Genesis vs SNES: Battle of the 16-bit consoles
  12. Paint 3D printed models: Here’s how
  13. S gauge vs O gauge
  14. What is a cold solder joint?
  15. Why did paint have lead in it?
  16. Gaslight Square, St. Louis
  17. 30-30-30 reset
  18. Mito tin trains: Postwar Japanese tin
  19. Early majority in marketing
  20. How to hook up a Sega Genesis to a TV
  21. Homer G. Phillips Hospital, St. Louis
  22. Dell Optiplex case swap: A How-to guide

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December 2020

  1. Qualys vs Rapid7
  2. Is the Commodore 128 power supply safe to use?
  3. Drywall outlet hole too big? Let’s fix it.
  4. 301 keyboard error
  5. The secret history of the F-14’s flight computer
  6. How to connect a Lionel transformer to track
  7. Questions landlords ask
  8. HP Touchpad tablet
  9. Who makes Kobalt hand tools for Lowe’s?
  10. Commodore SFD-1001
  11. Can you caulk over grout?
  12. Testors Dullcote alternative
  13. Electrical box screw size
  14. CRT burn in
  15. How much weight can a 2×4 hold?
  16. Brushless drill vs brushed: Which is better?
  17. View headers in Gmail to see if that mail is real
  18. How many Atari 2600 games are there?
  19. Lionel Scout train sets: Entry level Lionel
  20. Commodore 1084 monitor
  21. Do blackout curtains help with heat?
  22. How long does oil based paint take to dry?
  23. Baking computer chips: Fixing chips in an oven
  24. Mizuno East-West train set
  25. What are mineral spirits?
  26. Does a USB hub need power?

November 2020

  1. Who makes Kobalt power tools for Lowe’s?
  2. How to cut Lionel tubular track
  3. Elmer’s Glue All vs School Glue: What’s the Difference?
  4. Who makes Husky tools?
  5. Tire pressure low when cold? Here’s why
  6. Q scale model railroading
  7. Is isopropyl alcohol the same as rubbing alcohol?
  8. Jonard EX-2 review: The best chip puller
  9. How to stain pine to look like oak
  10. Yet another server migration
  11. MOS 6522 replacement
  12. Broadcom vs Intel NIC
  13. Monitor stand for retro computers
  14. Amiga Bridgeboard: The PC compatibility option
  15. Why are some books so cheap on Amazon?
  16. My plank wood ceiling
  17. What is RS-232?

October 2020

  1. GFCI vs AFCI
  2. How to mount a power strip
  3. Qualys severity vs CVSS
  4. DIY wood crate shelves
  5. Why are some books so expensive on Amazon?
  6. What to look for in a surge protector
  7. Asymmetric attack examples
  8. Can’t type in PyCharm? Try this first.
  9. Normal GPU temperature
  10. Can you paint drywall without texture?
  11. Selling books on Amazon
  12. Surge protector vs power strip
  13. Are tenkeyless keyboards good?
  14. Composite vs S-Video
  15. How to keep paint rollers from drying out
  16. How can market penetration be achieved?
  17. How to keep paint from drying out

September 2020

  1. Resize images in bulk in Windows 10
  2. Can a storm damage a modem?
  3. Can you paint drywall without primer?
  4. What is a PS2 keyboard?
  5. Was the Macintosh a failure?
  6. How to change Windows 10’s default image viewer
  7. Windows Explorer is slow? Try this.
  8. How to keep paint brushes from drying out
  9. What is daisy chaining?
  10. Laser printer streaks and how to fix them
  11. Why Amiga failed
  12. Commodore 1570 disk drive
  13. Atari SDrive Max
  14. How to not drill too deep
  15. How to cut foam insulation board cleanly
  16. Amiga 1080 monitor

August 2020

  1. u200b: What it is, and why it messes up your code or data
  2. Atarisoft: If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em
  3. Are old Tandy computers worth anything?
  4. Are Westinghouse TVs good?
  5. Timex Sinclair 1500: The ZX81 in Spectrum clothing
  6. Trash-80: What it meant and why it stuck
  7. GT 710 vs GT 1030
  8. Are police scanners illegal?
  9. Buying computer gear in the 80s and 90s
  10. The difference between CVE and CVSS
  11. TRS-80 MC-10: Radio Shack’s cheapest computer
  12. 1983 video game crash
  13. x16 GPU in PCIe x1 slot: The caveats
  14. How to use Excel VLOOKUP
  15. What does CVE stand for? How do you fix one?
  16. Make a picture ledge for your vintage computer
  17. Windows 10 audio not working? Try this.

July 2020

  1. How to remove sticker residue
  2. Atari 800 video cables
  3. What CVSS is and how to use it
  4. 7805 switch mode replacement
  5. ETL file: What it is and how to open or read it
  6. Why do capacitors fail?
  7. Combining cells in Excel
  8. What social engineering is and how it works
  9. How to remove tape residue
  10. Job offer acceptance deadline? Proceed with caution.
  11. Is HGST a good brand? Are HGST drives reliable?
  12. CISSP salary expectations
  13. Burn marks on a Commodore 64
  14. Advice for new bloggers
  15. The Delmar Divide in St. Louis
  16. Wrinkled traces on a Commodore 64 motherboard
  17. Imposter syndrome in tech and cyber security

June 2020

  1. History of Western Digital hard drives
  2. Stack rank: An employee perspective
  3. John Bolton, The Room Where It Happened: A review
  4. Linkedin connection requests from strangers
  5. Replace or repair roof? Know when it’s time.
  6. Typical benefits package for employees
  7. What is the difference between 1/64 and 1/87 visually?
  8. Eephus pitch in baseball
  9. IEEE-488 and Commodore
  10. Commodore 8-inch floppy disk drives
  11. Relating to a black male
  12. What does Unisys do?
  13. Shodan API Python example
  14. Is Windows Unix based?
  15. Infinite game: What does it mean?
  16. Atari 800 vs 800XL
  17. Why does reseating RAM work?
  18. Lawn mower bogs down? Try this.
  19. House money pit solutions

May 2020

  1. Is Aliexpress safe?
  2. What is DDoSing or a DDoS attack?
  3. Reverse polarity outlet danger
  4. Add a case fan to a Dell Optiplex
  5. Drill vs impact driver
  6. Why should I learn Python?
  7. How to unschedule a WordPress post
  8. Laser 128 computer
  9. How does a Lionel e-unit work?
  10. Is the Linksys WRT54G obsolete?
  11. Windows 10 Start Menu not working: A 30-second fix
  12. Can you download RAM?
  13. RAM Doubler remembered
  14. Skyline tin buildings
  15. What to do with an unsolicited offer to buy property
  16. Budget folding rig
  17. How to fix a sticky door knob
  18. Pretty print JSON in Python
  19. Technical difficulties
  20. Louis Marx: The bygone toy king

April 2020

  1. Can Gamestop survive?
  2. Does undervolting damage your GPU?
  3. How to disassemble a Sharpie
  4. Wire a Sakai O gauge switch
  5. Statistical significance – why it matters
  6. SMR hard drives
  7. Folding at home GPU not running
  8. Best video card for i5-3470
  9. Are Lionel trains AC or DC?
  10. How to get an entry level cyber security job
  11. Qualys false positives
  12. Dell Optiplex 3010 upgrades
  13. Is Windows 7 safe to use?
  14. Tales of computer retail past
  15. How to dust your model railroad
  16. Kevin Mitnick security awareness training – can you trust him?
  17. Foldingathome – how little is too little?
  18. Why no Windows 9? The surprising reason
  19. Foldingathome with the Nvidia Geforce 210
  20. What to do if you’ve been laid off
  21. History of Charter Communications
  22. Is gigabit Internet worth it?

March 2020

  1. Is it cheaper to build a PC?
  2. What to do if you think you’ll be laid off
  3. Soldering for model railroaders
  4. Fix NES controllers yourself
  5. How old is retro?
  6. What is LVP flooring?
  7. Atari 2600 voltage regulator troubleshooting and replacement
  8. American Flyer track radius
  9. Amana dishwasher not cleaning well? Fix it yourself and save
  10. Root cause – what it is and why it’s important
  11. What is dollar cost averaging?
  12. DO vs MD: Two philosophies, but both doctors
  13. Marx 1829 vs 333
  14. Timex Sinclair 2068: the ZX Spectrum’s ill-fated twin
  15. How to make Hot Wheels go faster
  16. What is a phreaker in hacking or IT terms?
  17. Do programmable thermostats save money?
  18. Train runs better backward than forward
  19. What is a multi core processor?
  20. Am I saving enough for retirement? Are you?
  21. Are stocks safe to invest in?
  22. What are keywords for SEO?

February 2020

  1. How big is 1:43 scale?
  2. How much does a blogger make?
  3. Coffee maker leaks? Try this.
  4. Should I roll over my 401(K)?
  5. 401(K) asset allocation
  6. What can damage a Lionel train?
  7. How to disassemble an Atari 2600 VCS
  8. Titebond 2 vs 3
  9. Bobson Dugnutt: The man, the meme, the legend
  10. Roth 401(K) vs traditional
  11. How much weight can a train table support?
  12. SSD vs HDD: Advantages of SSDs over hard drives
  13. What is infosec?
  14. Enter BIOS setup in HP computers
  15. How much weight can a screw in a stud hold?
  16. Code 100 vs Code 83
  17. Geothermal heating and cooling pros and cons
  18. Repair damaged PCB traces with wire
  19. My Ikea furniture adventures
  20. What to do with old countertops

January 2020

  1. Make your own train backdrop
  2. Are home warranty plans worth it?
  3. TV wall mount won’t unfold
  4. How to reboot a modem and router
  5. Which post office is open on Sunday?
  6. Marx caboose values
  7. Coax cable TV antenna you can make yourself
  8. Liquid Nails vs wood glue
  9. Is St Louis dangerous?
  10. Openoffice vs Libreoffice
  11. What does diecast mean?
  12. Is the Honey Chrome extension safe?
  13. Can you paint vinyl siding?
  14. Monitor for Commodore 64
  15. How to remove super glue
  16. Zinc pest: What it is and what to do about it
  17. Tile over Formica backsplash
  18. What is WD-40 used for?
  19. How to pronounce GIF: JIF or GIF?
  20. How to find a stud in the wall
  21. Liberty Falls Collection
  22. Wood for pantry shelves

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