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SeaTools

Some months ago I was working at a client in Chicago and needed an external hard drive to transfer some files. There was a Staples I could walk to over my lunch hour and they didn’t have a bad price on a USB 3.0 6TB Seagate drive. When I first got the thing it was fantastic! Hooked to the back of an IBM ThinkCentre, it seemed faster than the internal hard drive. For a while … SeaToolsRead more

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The ST506 Tale

I have been saving this brittle, yellow, tractor feed sheet of paper for a very long time. It was printed with a dot matrix printer back when dot matrix ruled the land. I saved it because it was a shining example of the writing quality we used to have during the time of RelayNet, FidoNet and Echomail. I’m posting it now so it might one day be picked up by the Internet Archive project and … The ST506 TaleRead more