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I used floppy disks as late as my undergrad days. In case I accidentally left this in the computer lab, I wrote my name, dorm phone number, and email address on the disk.
The Phaistos Disk refers to the goddess of love who glows and grows dim According to linguist Gareth Owens.
The Phaistos Disc is a disk of fired clay from the Minoan palace of Phaistos on the island of Crete, possibly dating to the middle or late Minoan Bronze Age. The disk is about 15 cm in diameter and covered on both sides with a spiral of stamped symbols.
Material: Clay
Discovered: July 3, 1908; Phaistos, Crete
Discovered by: Luigi Pernier
Present location: Heraklion Archaeological Museum
Created: 2nd millennium BC
“Side Α of the disk speaks of the pregnant goddess who glows and side B contains a sentence in two lines in Minoan alliteration which refers to the goddess who grows dim; The fading of Astarte/Aphrodite/Aphaia. With your help, I should like us one day in the future to translate these lines on the goddess of love and learn more”.
With these words, linguist Dr Gareth Owens, a specialist in Minoan script, concluded his interesting talk entitled “The Voice of the Phaistos Disk” given on Wednesday at the National Hellenic Research Foundation (NHRF), in collaboration with the Technological Educational Institute (TEI) of Crete.
“It has 61 words on the two sides and 18 lines in the form of a rhyming sonnet. Six words speak about the light and six words speak of the light’s fading. Three words speak about the pregnant goddess and another 10 about the goddess with different adjectives”, said Dr Owens in fluent Greek, addressing a large audience in the amphitheatre of the NHRF, who had come to hear his experimental interpretation of more than half the words on the Disk, based on many years of scientific research.
“Words and a whole sentence from the Phaistos Disk were also found in other Minoan religious syllabic inscriptions, both in the cave of Arkalochori and on the Yuchtas Mountain next to Archanes and Knossos. These religious inscriptions were found along with votive offerings, so the Minoan words together with the Minoan votive offerings are related both with religion and health.
“Consequently it can be seen in a logical context, i.e. the Phaistos Disk is a Minoan religious syllabic inscription read in epigraphic continuity and related with almost parallel texts that are associated with holy sites and votive offerings , i.e. with wishes, prayers and above all with health,” Dr Owens noted.
The disk is made up of 242 icons with 42 distinct signs.
They represent everything from bows and arrows to slaves, with others still posing a mystery.
Some icons are accompanied by oblique strokes, with their importance remaining unknown.
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Bracelet made with the pin of the floppy disk and the handles of the bags of paper.
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Here's me looking for this online only to find this in my collection of CD's, thanks to my 1yr old girl finding it haha
Photo from Allan Gronow. Allan was an Australian National Serviceman who served in Vietnam from 12th September 1967 until 11th June 1968. Allan was attached to 2Comp Ord Depot/2AOD at Vung Tau.
Allan & his wife June are retired and live (as at 2014) in the Perth suburb of Kingsley in Western Australia.
Kodak Disk 4000 (1982)
Very simple camera, auto everything, for the defunct disk cartridges.
This model used a lithium battery that wasn't replaceable by the user, mine still has charge.
The format lasted less of a decade due to the poor quality of the enlargments, resulting on the difficulty in keeping the negative flat and the enlargement ratio necessary with the tiny negatives, of only 8x10 mm.
I invite you to visit my blog Classic Cameras
Very slick solution for highly portable and cheap bulk storage. The $99 toaster accepts a pair of naked SATA disks and exposes them via either a shared USB2.0 port or individual eSATA ports.
Copying data off of a Linux server we were able to sustain copy speeds of 60+ megabytes per second without any optimization efforts. Very nice.
Canyons of Your Mind, b-side of Urban Spaceman (1968) by The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band - now touring!
"Singing is a trick to get people to listen to music for longer than they would ordinarily."
-- David Byrne
This is a screenshot of all the volumes/disks permanently attached to my iMac. The breakdown is as follows.
On the internal 256 GB SSD, there's a single volume called Solid. It has OS X and all my applications on it, and is the boot volume. It has about 160 GB free at the moment.
The internal 1 TB HDD has two volumes. One is called Files, and is around 900 GB in size (725 GB free); I've offloaded various subfolders from my home folder onto that drive, as described in this blog post I wrote. The second volume is a 100 GB Boot Camp (Windows 7) volume, of which only 15 GB is free due to my Steam games library. I should have made it bigger, and may do so later.
I have a 2 TB Seagate GoFlex Desktop drive attached via FireWire 800, which I use for Time Machine backups of both the internal SSD and the Files volume on the internal HDD. Having a FireWire 800 connection really helps with Time Machine's sometimes ponderous performance, as does having loads of free space on the drive (1.9 TB free at the moment).
Finally, I have a Western Digital 2 TB USB2 drive attached, split into four volumes:
1. Solid Clone, 256 GB. I use this for my nightly SuperDuper clone of the internal SSD boot drive. The initial clone took a few hours, then each nightly clone is what SuperDuper calls a "Smart Update", which just adds/removes what's necessary to keep the clone identical to the original. Last night, for example, it took 6 minutes to run; I have it scheduled to start at 23:30.
2. Files Clone, 920 GB. I use this for my nightly SuperDuper clone of the Files volume on the internal HDD. Similarly to the Solid Clone, this is a Smart Update in SuperDuper. I run it at 01:00, and last night it took 1 minute to complete. My machine is set to sleep at 02:00, and I wake it when I get back into the office in the morning.
3. OS Test, 20 GB. This is used for testing other versions of OS X.
4. Backups, 800 GB. This is just a catch-all volume taking up the rest of the space on the drive; I may put it to more specific uses later.
I also have many other USB2 drives, including clones and Time Machine backups of old/unused machines, plus the active Time Machine destinations for my MacBook Air and Lauren's MacBook Pro.