Readers’ poll

How on earth did David Crookes manage to write the otherwise excellent article about Andy Grove (see issue 375, p123) without mentioning the IBM PC with Intel’s 8088 (and optional 8087) inside, which

I like to think of us – readers, writers, suppliers – as all being jolly serious folk. No room for RGB bling, don’t even whisper the word “gaming”. We all want to look like we’re making impactful deci

I learnt to type on a heavy black manual typewriter at secondary school in the late 1970s. Although I was keen to learn, I took a strong dislike to the messing about with ribbons and carbon paper. It

As we barrel into the second half of this decade, you find me in a reflective mood. Happy New Year, by the way. For reasons which will become relevant in a moment, I’ve delved into Inspiration Compute

The decade that saw great leaps for gadgets, and Furbies too

In the early Nineties, Dan was a TV regular as the European Sega Champion. Over the decades that followed, he’d head into development, write gargantuan guides, break big news stories and help to guide a beloved magazine’s final issues. We catch up with him to relive the ups and downs of a sometimes tempestuous career