10 Oct
2012
10 Oct
'12
4:07 a.m.
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 12:46 PM, Shoppa, Tim <tshoppa at wmata.com> wrote:
I think you're on the right track. My guess is that they're building
an on-line software repository to archive the 15,000 diskettes with
software they have, and want to do it using original-era hardware.
Camiel
QUINZE MIL
FLOPPIES??? Que voces vao fazer com tanto disquete assim?!
He's obviously building a 21.6 Gigabyte RAID Array using a proven
storage medium with a long track record, rather than these modern
hocus-pocus terabyte drives that use pure magic to record anything
and you never know where on the media it will actually land. Won't
hold all of bitsavers by any means, but will hold like an eighth of it.