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Five-Disk Floppy RAID: 4MB of Blistering Fast Storage (2009)

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Re: Five-Disk Floppy RAID: 4MB of Blistering Fast Storage (2009)

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Post by noman-land »

johnzim wrote: post #4

I clicked the link after reading just the first 4 words of the title. I didn't see the year it was written until I had closed the link - perhaps it was added after the initial submission. After reading the article through I was struck by the tone. It was a breath of fresh air - so optimistic and enthusiastic and not in the least bit self-important or unduly serious. It made me excited to read more! When I saw the '(2…

"Whatever happened to that infectious, enthusiastic incarnation of wired magazine?"

I reckon it was Conde Nast.

Re: Five-Disk Floppy RAID: 4MB of Blistering Fast Storage (2009)

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Post by woleium »

eru wrote: post #7
par wrote: post #6

Really miss stuff like this from back in the early computing days. One time we used MS Backup to copy Warcraft 1 from my friends computer to my own. Took like 80 floppy disks!

That sounds like you copied the CD version via a floppy disk? It would have probably been faster to put your friends hard disk into your computer for a few minutes and copy directly from disk to disk?

remember laplink?

Re: Five-Disk Floppy RAID: 4MB of Blistering Fast Storage (2009)

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Post by afavour »

johnzim wrote: post #4

I clicked the link after reading just the first 4 words of the title. I didn't see the year it was written until I had closed the link - perhaps it was added after the initial submission. After reading the article through I was struck by the tone. It was a breath of fresh air - so optimistic and enthusiastic and not in the least bit self-important or unduly serious. It made me excited to read more! When I saw the '(2…

> Whatever happened to that infectious, enthusiastic incarnation of wired magazine?

I assume it didn’t make money. I have fond memories of reading PC magazines front to back in the 90s but they’re all gone now. The audience has gone online, to a hundred different blogs or YouTube channels or whatever.

Re: Five-Disk Floppy RAID: 4MB of Blistering Fast Storage (2009)

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Post by jrmg »

noman-land wrote: post #12
johnzim wrote: post #4

I clicked the link after reading just the first 4 words of the title. I didn't see the year it was written until I had closed the link - perhaps it was added after the initial submission. After reading the article through I was struck by the tone. It was a breath of fresh air - so optimistic and enthusiastic and not in the least bit self-important or unduly serious. It made me excited to read more! When I saw the '(2…

"Whatever happened to that infectious, enthusiastic incarnation of wired magazine?" I reckon it was Conde Nast.

Wired’s been owned by Condé Nast since 1998, and wired.com since 2006.

Re: Five-Disk Floppy RAID: 4MB of Blistering Fast Storage (2009)

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Post by milsorgen »

johnzim wrote: post #4

I clicked the link after reading just the first 4 words of the title. I didn't see the year it was written until I had closed the link - perhaps it was added after the initial submission. After reading the article through I was struck by the tone. It was a breath of fresh air - so optimistic and enthusiastic and not in the least bit self-important or unduly serious. It made me excited to read more! When I saw the '(2…

I still have a physical subscription and I will say they do a good job offering content that you can read and it doesn't already feel terribly dated. Yes, often the topics are stuff you'll have browsed over in the last 30 days but the articles are still well written and worth a read (provided you haven't spent too much time on wired.com (I don't)). But the magazine feels so lite now, almost like a special physical edition of their website. The photo of Grimes on the cover recently was nice, maybe they could lean in a bit more on pictorial and photographic content, if it's days aren't already numbered.
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