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Humor: Bondi iMac Floppy Disk RAID
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amazing
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May 12, 2004, 03:00 PM
 
What could be so sublimely ridiculous, bring a smile to your face, and flash lights and make sounds like the ultimate floppy disk pinball array?

Why it's the Bondi blue iMac Floppy Disk RAID Array:

http://ohlssonvox.8k.com/fdd_raid.htm

This won't ever make the supercomputers quake in theirs BOOT sequence, but for sheer irreverance, it's so cute!
     
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May 14, 2004, 12:14 AM
 
::yawn:: this is ancient news.

Edit: I see that this has been floating around the blogs again, but it was done over a year ago on OS X, and 2 years ago on Linux.

http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/...03/floppyraid/

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turtle777
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May 19, 2004, 10:18 AM
 
Originally posted by tooki:
::yawn:: this is ancient news.
It's still funny.

Btw,
XP couldn't do it, OS X out of the box !

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