Really more of a hardware RAM drive, but CompuPro offered a board called the M-drive for their S-100 ecosystem in the early '80s. 512k of DRAM-based storage; one board cost $1,895 in 02/1983. The potential existed to use up to eight boards in one system, which would give the user a 4MB RAM disk.
Right wing conspiracy theorists have always made new world orders sound like they honestly wouldn’t be the worst outcome to geopolitics
They tell us here to buy american products…and then all the american products suck.
Ah, so this is one of those “ironic saying got inverted into being unironic” scenarios like with the Bootstraps or Bad Apples sayings.
The fact that he has even a crumb of clout is quite possibly the single most damning indictment of the concept of meritocracy.
Did somebody say something about an assaassin known as a strider?
Whatever happens happens. Don’t really care that much anymore.
It’s awfully convenient how people suddenly stick their necks out on stuff once it expressly wouldn’t make a difference anymore
Quite possibly one of the dumbest uses of nation state clout in human history
I actually still mess with diskettes on a fairly frequent basis, but it’s more of a hobby thing than a serious use thing
HAARPposting: First as farce, then as tragedy
The whole “Oh if not for those filthy external influences people’d just do thing our way by default.” mindset is always a hoot. Big problem in a lot of places.
So Long, Astoria.
For anyone who actually wants a sequel for some reason, Konami made a NES game that’s pretty solid.
Rahm Emanuel vexes me by continuing to live.
Yeah I’ve just kind of felt like shit for one reason or another for most of my life to this point. The 2000s sucked
Enjoying an ice cold Baikal Cola, the American classic
Rocky Linux 2
Assigned System/370 Operator At Birth
I miss the mountains of the Northwest. There’s something that remains really weird to me about how flat my stretch of the Great Lakes are, even 20 years on.
FWIW CompuPro targeted the enterprise and scientific markets. Something like this wouldn’t be something a individual home/hobbyist/small business user would be buying.