- I had to hunt around for it, here’s the direct link:
https://discuss.systems/@ricci/115504720054699983
It’s a photo of a tape with a handwritten label. Very cool if it’s real, readable and validated. Sounds like they are going to drive it to the CHM so we’ll find out soon.
- I love this site. It's saved my bacon when working with old floppies. Every time I visit I learn something new - I suppose something old, but new to me. What a great effort by a real enthusiast and if you're here Thomas, many thanks for the wonderful resource.
I did prefer the old style of the site though, it feels a bit more nostalgic to me.
https://web.archive.org/web/20200224063235/https://retrocmp..../
- I’m looking forward to more posts in this new blog, he does a bit of an intro here:
https://stonetools.ghost.io/introducing/
I saw the author also has a bunch of interesting Pico-8 software developments in the same vein:
- Thanks for this, it’s great. Much more accessible than my own archive, which is in a box, in the loft, in my mums house 4500 miles away in the UK!
- I’ve been enjoying the latest business wars, “The AOL Time Warner Disaster” which I suppose many of us thought it was pretty messed up at the time. Spoiler alert: it was even more messed up that you imagined!
- I was flabbergasted at the time that AOL was valued more than Time Warner. By that point any savvy analysis should have pointed out AOL was very far down the road of being just another ISP rather than a destination in itself, while the Time Warner media assets were much more valuable and relevant then than they are today (and there’s still some value there today).
Total failure of due diligence — on the scale of the Studebaker-Packard merger, or bigger — and every consultant on Time Warner’s side who didn’t advise against it should have been put on a list, never to be trusted again.
- Wow. That was quite the journey.
I remember the pizza box Sun machines fondly. I must have ordered hundreds of SPARCserver 20’s in the first couple of years in my career - the investment banks in London ran off them in the 1990’s, though I suppose we had a little bit of everything!
- I’ve never once called that connector “sherbert ice cream”. :)
The reference is completely over my head though…
- I funded a magenta one, all it needs is a massive heat sink on the right hand side…
Anyone else get one?
- Thanks for posting, that lead me down a very pleasant rabbit hole!
- I’ve just bought a Power Computing PowerBase 180, seems like a decent machine so far.
That deal for $100MM in APPL in 1997 though. What a horrible ROI as it’s only worth $37B today.
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The issue of "what I see at a link, isn't what you see at the same link" seems to be getting worse, especially on social media. And a lot of sites no longer even care enough to provide an explicit Permalink.