Gregory's ServerThis is the kind of mixed use technologically advanced socialised housing that they took from us.
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@darkling @NanoRaptor DAT was great. I have the same fondness for DAT as I do for SCART. I love SCART. Thick. Chunky. Reliable. No fucking about.  @devxvda @NanoRaptor At one point, I had a 12-tape DDS-2 changer, and a couple of DDS-3 drives. I never worked out how to fit one of the DDS-3 drives into the case of the DDS-2 changer mechanism. I still have a tape drive (LTO-5), but I changed the controller and it now runs about as fast as a modem, which really sucks. I should get some help on that one of these days. @darkling @NanoRaptor LTO-5 was the last version of tape I used! The capacity of LTO-9 is obscene in comparison @darkling @NanoRaptor 100 EUR per tape versus 35 EUR? /gen IIRC LTO-5 was circa 100 EUR a tape back in 2012. @devxvda @NanoRaptor I was thinking more of the cost of the drives. I got my LTO-5 for about £800 on eBay, I think. That was a few years ago. The later generations ramp up in price very quickly. @devxvda @darkling @NanoRaptor I used LTO-1 at 200 USD per tape back in 2004-2005 timeframe. You're right, with 3 DAT drives, you could use RAIT5, and get improved error handling and still get good capacity efficiency.  @NanoRaptor I see the car dash warning lights there... and the Apple logo... and the Twitter bird... hm, I should stop seeing things.   @NanoRaptor @foobarsoft @NanoRaptor took me a moment too long to look at the creator name, too - otherwise it looked like some aging monster chassis someone just dumped all their salvaged 5.25" devices in to keep them all neatly stored. @NanoRaptor @NanoRaptor have you seen these Melbourne apartments? somebody really said 'JPEG artifacts but make it a building.' @engagedpractx oh that’s kind of hard to look at. I want to antialias it all. When I reach a desktop I think I’ll run a de-jpg filter over it for a lark… @NanoRaptor it is SO hard to look at! the first time I went past it on the train I nearly fell off my seat.  @NanoRaptor @engagedpractx Maybe if we're patient, the next progressive step will load in?  @engagedpractx @colinstu @NanoRaptor That looks like a building that could feature in a Ghostbusters movie. @TyrionTargaryen @colinstu @NanoRaptor It's a portrait of an Indigenous elder, William Barak, who was a powerful leader of his tribe. If he is haunting the white settler imaginary, ain't no ghostbusters gonna resolve that.  @engagedpractx @TyrionTargaryen @colinstu @NanoRaptor good to know, my first association was RMS @engagedpractx @NanoRaptor Ah yes, before modern anti-aliasing, it was much easier to rent an apartment with a fake name, is the reason... @engagedpractx @NanoRaptor Meanwhile, my town can't even afford proper lighting effects. @engagedpractx @NanoRaptor that should have been the villains headquarters in The Matrix   @NanoRaptor  @NanoRaptor Now I want to live in a house that looks like an Amiga 1000 and the keyboard garage is an actual garage. @NF6X I'm pretty sure if you google image search for Adam Spychała you'd find something in that vein - probably half a dozen! @NanoRaptor I can see hints of that in his style, but I meant I want the house to literally look exactly like an Amiga 1000. 😜 @NanoRaptor The apartments on the 3rd floor north and south sides are the most sought-after due to their superior natural light  @NanoRaptor I unironically want this today. I don't care that floppydisks mostly went the way of the dodo. I want it. It looks pretty.  @NanoRaptor @pluralistic I sure would like having modern equivalents of that.
And the original beige one, it is also nice.  The IBM PS/RAID2 featured RAID 2 floppies and tape drives. The result was blazing fast performance almost 1/10th the speed of a low end hard drive, except when recovering data from the frequent data failures.   |
@NanoRaptor There aren't enough DAT drives in that for my liking.
I loved DAT... but it just didn't have the capacity.