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After quietly switching to slower NAND in an NVMe SSD, Western Digital promises to be a bit louder next time

Friday 27th August 2021 10:28 GMT zappy

Sucks too. I (among many others, I'm sure) was stung hard by the Seagate 3TB drive debacle, and I've been recommending/buying WD drives ever since.

But between this and the Red SMR fiasco, I just can't trust Western Dij anymore - whoever's in charge there is clearly putting this-quarter profits ahead of all the goodwill they've built over the last couple of decades. Did they get bought by a hedge fund or something?

I'm very happy with the Toshiba drives I've purchased, but they're apparently out of the game now. Is there anyone reliable left?

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81's 99 in 17: Still a lotta love for the TI‑99/4A – TI's forgotten classic

Wednesday 19th April 2017 07:56 GMT zappy

First computer, right here

Wow, yep, this was the first machine I ever had. My old man worked retail and brought a (discontinued) one home for three-year-old me. He soon connected me with a workmate of his who'd gone fully-loaded-peripheral-box-crazy over these things, and who promptly drowned me in software and know-how. The Speech Synthesizer was especially fun - I remember being able to feed it phonetically-spelled text that sounded pretty natural - especially for the mid-80's.

I still love the robotic-chicken noise of the tape recorder reading in a tape of, say, Tunnels of Doom. Sounds like home.

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