As I Xi It

Ahh, retro games on the iPad. Love it! I wonder if Nintendo will ever bring something to the App Store.

Arkanoid (Arkanold App Store)/Space Invaders (Space Inversion App Store)

Is that a SNES controller I see?

Hours of entertainment

Seeing as my car has a cassette player, I had a rummage in my cassettes collection and this popped up. I remember buying it from HMV back in the day, oh the memories.

Surely this must be a collectors item now?

Today I’ve been rooting around in my boxes looking for my old external CD-RW (Yamaha CRW2200UX) that I got way back when they just came out (on the bottom it says it was manufactured in October 2001!!!) and it was one of the first ones with USB 2.0. Boy is it heavy, beige and ugly, it costed just over £100. Nowadays, you can pick one up from around £20 with USB 2.0 in a nice, compact and stylish package without the need for an external power block.

It’s amazing how things have moved on. I wonder what’s next for the humble CD/CD-RW/DVD-RW. Will it dissappear in the same way that floppy disks did?

The drive’s about twice the length of a bog standard CD. Next to it on the left is a 250MB Zip drive. Remember those? This one needs an external power supply. Both drives still work, I managed to burn a CD without a hitch. It’ll come in handy when I’ll be installing Windows XP on a Linux netbook which is what I’ll do once I’ve picked one out.