Saw this earlier today, and this pleased me 😁
A member of archiveteam decided to see if Imation would honor their warranty:
... and, arrived 06/30/2017...
🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣
Src: https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/884074879011635200
"I see a little silhouette-o of a man, Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you
do the Fandango!" - Queen
Stiletto
Nice! Says something about the company. They just went up a few rungs in my book.
The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know.
OPL3 FM vs. Roland MT-32 vs. General MIDI DOS Game Comparison
Let's benchmark our systems with cache disabled
DOS PCI Graphics Card Benchmarks
I'm more surprised at them having stock with which to replace it than anything else.
Halcyon: PC Chips M525, P100, 64MB, Millenium 1, Voodoo1, AWE64, DVD, Win95B
The amazing part, according to the Twitter chatter about this, is that they no longer "exist as a data storage entity", and their former headquarters in Oakdale, MN has been abandoned for some time.
If you go to imation.com, you get redirected here: http://www.glassbridge.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glassbridge_Enterprises
"I see a little silhouette-o of a man, Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you
do the Fandango!" - Queen
Stiletto
wrote:The amazing part, according to the Twitter chatter about this, is that they no longer "exist as a data storage entity", and their former headquarters in Oakdale, MN has been abandoned for some time.
If you go to imation.com, you get redirected here: http://www.glassbridge.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glassbridge_Enterprises
Spirits from a storage past stuck in purgatory sending replacement disks to the living.
Someone forgot to tell Larry in the back that they shut down. He keeps showing up and doing his job.
The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know.
OPL3 FM vs. Roland MT-32 vs. General MIDI DOS Game Comparison
Let's benchmark our systems with cache disabled
DOS PCI Graphics Card Benchmarks
That's not Larry in the back, it's Melvin.
All hail the Great Capacitor Brand Finder
Hadn't realized Imation more or less closed up shop - that explains why Best Buy isn't selling Memodreck disks anymore 😉 I looked up special products llc and found this ebay store:
Amazing story! 😁
And it's the second company that I today found out about that kinda quit the PC component market (after Club 3D sadly seems to have also removed a lot of mention about their graphics card stuff).
'Imation'. The name really brings lots of memory, although at that time, my favorite hard drive manufacturer was actually Maxell because of their (perceived) durability.
Never thought this thread would be that long, but now, for something different.....
Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman.
