Low-cost ways to maintain and protect your computers

On the BBC site today is a story entitled Reboot for UK's ‘oldest' computer. Britain's oldest original computer, the Harwell, is being sent to the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley where it will be restored to working orders. It first ran in 1951 and lasted until 1973 - quite a lifespan!

If your house is anything like the Small Business household we have at least 2 PCs in the attic that aren't doing anything anymore, though they still work. We've tried to give PCs away on more than one occasion in the past but met with no success - even from charities. I'm not suggesting we all send our redundant PCs to one large museum in the sky (although actually maybe there's an opportunity for harnessing their combined power for a cloud computing solution....), but before you retire an ageing PC have you thought about upgrading and patching it to improve functionality? It's greener, cost-conscious and worth a try.

In our July Ask the Expert article, Paul Broadwidth from Blue Ivy Ltd talks about easy, low-cost ways to maintain and protect your computers, which can extend their lifespan. OKay, so maybe it's not as exciting as browsing through new PC catalogues but a few simple maintenance tasks could save your company some money - and right now, that's a real benefit.