I managed to transfer some Acorn Electron tapes onto audio CDs once, and was also able to speed up the loading time by reducing the long "padding" beeps between the blocks (which I'm sure have a proper name..)
Oddly enough there was one tape that it just would not work with - though it loaded fine directly from the tape, so goodness knows what strange analogue copy protection had been implemented.
The Toyotas w/o the brake override system could be stopped if you were at slow speeds with a lot of effort on the brakes and emergency brake. At higher speeds, the breaks where not enough to stop the vehicle with only the brakes. They also tried turning the vehicles off which would stop the vehicle, but the driver had to manhandle the vehicle w/o benefit of power steering and power brakes.
Can power not be cut by putting the gearbox in neutral, thereby keeping the power steering and brakes working?
The real issue I have with the Google word processor is it does not seem to figure out page widths correctly, so when I come to print stuff, I find sometimes what should have just fitted onto one page / one line goes slightly onto two.
The last time I had this issue was when running MS Works 3.0 on Windows 3.1, so this problem ought to have been resolved by now!
Please tell me I was not the only one who was expecting a railway signalling system....
PC World in the UK have recently been running some ads for some Dell laptops (IIRC) with Core Duo processors - the strapline goes something like "run multiple programs with the Intel Core Duo"... blah blah. My non-techie wife couldn't get over this - saying she's never seen a computer where you cannot run multiple programs.
I believe there are a handful of consumer routers out there that can also use their USB port as a printer server, which could be handy.
"Been through Hell? Whaddya bring back for me?" -- A. Brilliant