USB is a glorious thing. It allows you to hook up a wide variety of products ranging from temperature monitoring equipment to keyboards and mice to headphones to drives and far beyond. Today I’m ...

Parallel ATA (IDE) uses 40 pins, not 26. 26 was for floppies. But it's a standard 40-pin "header" connector. Sometimes called "IDC". CF cards have the PATA interface on a 50-pin connector. I don't ...

I am transforming an old (2004?) Athlon 2400 based box, into a modern machine. I am reusing everything that is still good, including case, 430 watt Antec power supply and two 7200 rpm Seagate SATA ...