Daily Archives: August 7, 2006

Season Two – Vintage Indian Advertisements

On June 24 ended the inaugural season of Vintage Indian Advertisements on Cutting the Chai, featuring 61 print ads in a dozen instalments. Today begins Season Two. The last season was sourced from Indrajal Comics, the ads in this one adorned the pages of Reader’s Digest, scrounged from Shillong’s popular second-hand bookseller Barua & Sons [...]

The mystery of the missing B

Ever wondered where is the B drive on your Windows PC? I had once thought about it, but didn’t go hunting to know where. Now Anthony digs out the answer: The answer goes back to the glory days of floppy discs and DOS. The early DOS operating system designated two drives, A and B, strictly [...]