“When we got it, it was two hunks of metal stuck together. We couldn’t even tell it was a hard drive. It was burned and the edges were melted,” said Edwards, an engineer at Kroll Ontrack Inc., outside Minneapolis. “It looked pretty bad at first glance, but we always give it a shot.”
Data from Columbia [...]
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Another cool project from master modder Ben Heckdorn
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Posted in History, Neat Stuff, Photography, tagged 1962, History, Photography, postcards, retro, Seattle, Video on February 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
What this town needs is a monorail! Maybe like this one in Seattle.
Or maybe like this New York model!
Nah, I don’t really want a monorail. This is just an excuse to link to these nifty postcards from the Seattle Worlds Fair 1962
the NY fair of 1964/5 and Montreal’s Expo ‘67 (which for some reason did [...]
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Here’s a nice story about a lost camera full of photos, and an honest couple who did some clever and persistent detective work to discover the owner and send it back home.
At dusk on New Year’s Eve, Erika Gunderson got into a taxi in New York City and entered a digital-age mystery. Sitting on the [...]
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