Double your retro Mac's hard drive space with this one weird card...
In the 80s and early 90s, hard drive space was a precious commodity. But keeping important files on floppies or other removable media carried its own risks. One company promised to double the amount of space your Mac's drive could hold just by installing an expansion card...but did it work?
Sources:
Seagate ST-225 photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Seagate_ST-225.jpg
"Bobker's Dozen," MacUser, July 1990.
"Stac To Use QIC's Data Compression Algorithm," InfoWorld, January 22, 1990.
"IBM, Stac sign data compression deal," Computerworld, April 18, 1994.
"Pipeline," InfoWorld, August 19, 1991.
"SuperDisk offers easy compression of Mac files," InfoWorld, August 5, 1991.
"Datran Add-In Doubles Hard Disk's Capacity," InfoWorld, August 8, 1988.
Datran DiskDoubler box photo: https://wiki.preterhuman.net/Datran_DiskDoubler_dd2000#/media/File:Datran1.jpg
"Stacker Coprocessor Offers Real-Time File COmpression/Decompression Without Sacrificing DOS Compatibility," PC Magazine, March 12, 1991.
Symantec headquarters photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Symantec_Headquarters_Mountain_View.jpg
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Music by Epidemic Sound (https://www.epidemicsound.com) and Soundstripe (https://www.soundstripe.com).
Intro music by BoxCat Games (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/BoxCat_Games).
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Sources:
Seagate ST-225 photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Seagate_ST-225.jpg
"Bobker's Dozen," MacUser, July 1990.
"Stac To Use QIC's Data Compression Algorithm," InfoWorld, January 22, 1990.
"IBM, Stac sign data compression deal," Computerworld, April 18, 1994.
"Pipeline," InfoWorld, August 19, 1991.
"SuperDisk offers easy compression of Mac files," InfoWorld, August 5, 1991.
"Datran Add-In Doubles Hard Disk's Capacity," InfoWorld, August 8, 1988.
Datran DiskDoubler box photo: https://wiki.preterhuman.net/Datran_DiskDoubler_dd2000#/media/File:Datran1.jpg
"Stacker Coprocessor Offers Real-Time File COmpression/Decompression Without Sacrificing DOS Compatibility," PC Magazine, March 12, 1991.
Symantec headquarters photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Symantec_Headquarters_Mountain_View.jpg
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Please consider supporting my work on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisdoesnotcompute
Follow me on Twitter and Instagram! @thisdoesnotcomp
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Music by Epidemic Sound (https://www.epidemicsound.com) and Soundstripe (https://www.soundstripe.com).
Intro music by BoxCat Games (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/BoxCat_Games).
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