{"id":1167,"date":"2015-11-06T10:02:24","date_gmt":"2015-11-06T15:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=1167"},"modified":"2015-11-12T12:58:55","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T17:58:55","slug":"benjs-this-old-tech-column-debuts-on-pcworldcom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/1167\/benjs-this-old-tech-column-debuts-on-pcworldcom","title":{"rendered":"Benj&#8217;s &#8216;This Old Tech&#8217; Column Debuts on PCWorld.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/3001853\/computers\/this-old-tech-the-toshiba-t1000-was-my-first-step-into-the-world-of-ms-dos.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/pcworld\/tot_toshiba.jpg\" alt=\"This Old Tech Column on Toshiba T1000\" width=\"450\" class=\"centered shadow\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today, PCWorld published the inaugural entry of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/3001853\/computers\/this-old-tech-the-toshiba-t1000-was-my-first-step-into-the-world-of-ms-dos.html\" target=\"_blank\">my new column<\/a>, <em>This Old Tech<\/em>.  In the column, I will be writing about vintage gadgets, games, and computers &#8212; pretty much the same stuff I talk about on <em>Vintage Computing and Gaming<\/em>.  So far, the plan is to publish a new piece every Friday.<\/p>\n<p>For the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/3001853\/computers\/this-old-tech-the-toshiba-t1000-was-my-first-step-into-the-world-of-ms-dos.html\" target=\"_blank\">first column<\/a>, I talk about the first MS-DOS computer I ever learned to use, the Toshiba T1000 laptop.  I still have the same machine from all those years ago, so aside from just waxing nostalgic, I also attempt to get it working again.<\/p>\n<p>So spread the word &#8212; I am looking forward to exploring my personal tech history in this new column.  I hope you enjoy it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, PCWorld published the inaugural entry of my new column, This Old Tech. In the column, I will be writing about vintage gadgets, games, and computers &#8212; pretty much the same stuff I talk about on Vintage Computing and Gaming. So far, the plan is to publish a new piece every Friday. For the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,7,13,21,9,5,10],"tags":[1206,222,88,369,649,771,90,896,1246,1247,1248],"class_list":["post-1167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-games","category-computer-info-and-history","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-news-current-events","category-retrogaming","category-vcg-announcements","category-computers","tag-announcements","tag-column","tag-freelance-work","tag-laptops","tag-ms-dos","tag-news","tag-pc-world","tag-personal-stories","tag-this-old-tech","tag-toshiba","tag-toshiba-t1000"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}