5 Jun
2012
5 Jun
'12
5:54 p.m.
On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 11:28:26AM -0400, Steven Hirsch wrote:
On Tue, 5 Jun 2012, Gene Buckle wrote:
Hmm.
On Mon, 4 Jun 2012, Steven Hirsch wrote:
Interesting, but it requires:
a) The purchase of a $50+ piece of hardware On Mon, 4 Jun 2012, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
For the Commodore users out there, you might want to look at the
Comet from http://www.commodoreserver.com. They've got a new
driver out that allows for a 38.4k transfer rate on the USER port,
which is a pretty big deal on a Commodore 64. I've got a Comet
and it works VERY well. >>Is this SLIP or PPP?
>
>Neither. It's a well thought-out (and documented!) protocol
>for interface
>between small 8-bit machines and modern hardware. There's nothing
>specific to the CoCo - that just happens to be the first implementation.
I just looked at it on sourceforge. It seems like the same setup of a
Lantronix UDS or Wiznet-type device. Those are a little more portable.
In some respects. But those don't give you the virtual disk
drive services that drivewire offers. b) That you store all your images on their web site.
WTF? Why should someone store their (presumably private) data on their
servers instead of storing it on one of his own machines right next
to it? Privacy, confidentiality, accessability all go pretty much down
the drain with that "clouded"[0] approach.
DriveWire requires that you build a single cable
(peanut
expenditure) and let's you store things on your own computer.
Sounds much more reasonable.
Maybe I'm just a curmudgeon, but I do not like the
current trend
towards putting my own data on third-party remote sites.
No, you are not. In fact, I believe this to be a perfectly reasonable
opinion. Why should I store my private data on machines outside my control?
Yes, some of my data (a carefully selected subset) is stored also on the
"cloud" of a company (which I have reasons to trust sufficiently).
Heck, even my backup tapes in the bank vault are encrypted.
Kind regards,
Alex.
[0] As in "clouded thinking".
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