Items tagged with apollo
With a saddened heart, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson announced the passing of fellow astronaut Thomas Stafford. Stafford was among the second group of astronauts to participate in Projects Gemini and Apollo, and piloted the first...
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New research has confirmed that Earth's Moon experiences tiny "moonquakes" like clockwork every morning and afternoon, while also uncovering further details about the lunar seismic events. The instruments that were used to detect the...
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Imation is expanding its Apollo family of external hard disk drives by adding the new Apollo Expert D300, Apollo Expert D200, Apollo Expert M200, and Apollo M100 hard drives to its lineup. As the flagship drive in the portfolio, the Apollo Expert D300 uses USB 3.0 technology to move data up to...
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Sony has announced it will cease producing 1.44" drives in March, 2011. Demand for 3.5" drives and disks is larger than you might think—some 12 million disks sold in 2009—but it's time to pull the plug on the ancient standard. Once the...
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Shuttle's AV30 VIA Apollo Pro 266 DDR Motherboard With a Dash of Crucial PC1600 DDR RAM... By Marco "BigWop" Chiappetta 2/8/2001 The motherboard market is about to go through yet another large transition...maybe. In the year 2000 we saw the once omni-present, dominant Intel...
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Shuttle AV14 Socket 370 Motherboard It's does everything right...but nothing great. By, Marco ?BigWop? Chiappetta 10 / 12 / 2000 My first assignment when I initially joined the Hot Hardware team was to review a VIA Apollo Pro 133 based board, the AV61 from Shuttle Inc. I was very...
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The past couple of days I?ve had a chance to get familiar with Shuttle?s new AV61 motherboard based on the VIA 133 chipset. I hit a few speed bumps along the way, but ended up pleased. This board has a strong list of features, at a fantastic price point, so if your itching to...
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Soyo's SY-6VCA Slot 1 Motherboard Is there a new Sheriff in town? By, Marco ?BigWop? Chiappetta June 16, 2000 Soyo has been making quite a name for themselves as of late. When Intel?s very popular BX chipset was prevalent, Soyo arguably produced a few of the very best boards available. Time goes by and new products...
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Transcend's AVE3 Socket 370 Motherboard A newcomer makes a splash By, Marco ?BigWop? Chiappetta June 7, 2000 There are a lot of heavy hitters in the motherboard market right now. Companies like Asus, Soyo, Tyan and Abit, among others, are always thought of first when...
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Abit's VP6 VIA Apollo Pro 133A Dual-CPU Motherboard Worth the trouble? By Marco "BigWop" Chiappetta February 22, 2001 Being afflicted with an addiction to PC hardware, I'm always on the lookout for my next major computer upgrade. Recently, Intel's Pentium 4 arrived on the scene but...
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