Anyone want some DDS tapes?
 

Yep that's what I said, DDS1 tapes 2gb native, brand new box of 10.........anyone?

Thought not. Oh well nostalgia!

Re: Anyone want some DDS tapes?
 

I've got a DDS cleaning taps still in the glove box of the car I think. Anyone who wants krhall's tapes are welcome to that.

Mind, about a foot to my left I've got an RM server with the DDS drive in it - never use the damn thing though.

Re: Anyone want some DDS tapes?
 

Un-reliable rubbish.

Re: Anyone want some DDS tapes?
 

Clearing out a store this morning and the nostagila is flooding out.

Toshiba laptops going back more than 10 years, I'm sure that they would be done for false advertising now for calling these portable!!!!

Re: Anyone want some DDS tapes?
 

Yeah hard to get the coal for them these days though.


Cheers Mark.

Re: Anyone want some DDS tapes?
 

Things were simple then - 1 dds tape per server, per day. Netware 4, Groupwise 5.2 and Corel Word Perfect...............ah the good old days using windows 3.11 and attempting to run a windows 95 upgrade.

IT was so much more interesting then and had an air of mystique to it.

Re: Anyone want some DDS tapes?
 

Hey still run a duel pentium pro server upstairs ( it's chugged away nicely as a file store for many years), once upon a time they were mega bucks, industry only super machines).

Re: Anyone want some DDS tapes?
 

In our store room I found some of the first Canon laptops, complete with built in printer, you lift the keyboard up and stash the paper in there, print something and out it slides :)

RM servers, I remember them, worked in a school with them, OS/2 when I started and we upgraded later to NT4 heh and a stupidly fast 64k isdn line between only 20 machines :D IRC was king of communication too.

Re: Anyone want some DDS tapes?
 

We had a couple of RM Netlm servers.. OS2.. brilliant! it could do things that Server 2003 STILL cant do!!!

Steve

Re: Anyone want some DDS tapes?
 

like crash when the network cable was unplugged? :) how damn annoying trying to keep two of them running in sync, providing remote boot to the 3.1 stations, in a school, with BNC connectors aplenty. :)
but I agree, had some natty features, just a whole load of crap too (or maybe it was just our system that kept falling over)

slightly more OT, we had a SHOCKING backup policy back then, was kinda "when we remember about it AND it seems like a good idea at the time" so when you remember it as you are heading out of the door for home time it didn't satisfy criteria 2 and you got on with your weekend, thankfully nothing ever went THAT wrong, not even god knows how. ;)