EMC is now shipping its boosted cloud storage: it's faster, more efficient, and a drag 'n' drop interface for Windows users makes it look like just another folder. Version 2.0 of the Atmos software is claimed to be 500 percent faster than v1. For protection it stores parts of objects, segments, across distributed Atmos boxes …

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Monday 4th July 2011 09:17 GMT TRT

distributed Atmos boxes

I, for one, welcome our new Sontaran overlords.

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1. Monday 4th July 2011 09:42 GMT The Infamous Grouse
  
  Atmos
  
  Nice reference, although first thought was of this:
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangerine_Computer_Systems#Oric_Atmos
  
  Ping! Zap! Explode!
  
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2. Monday 4th July 2011 10:28 GMT My Alter Ego
  
  In other news, EMC is leaving Earth for Castor 36
  
  There is a delicious irony in the fact it's cloud related too, seeing as it's an American corp I doubt it's an in joke.
  
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Monday 4th July 2011 10:32 GMT PhilBack

Ah Oric Atmos... So 80s :-)

And it had a less stellar history than the Oric1. Better keyboard tough.

Back to the cloud, everytime I see "Cloud", it just feels like a synonym for "online". As in "Online Storage" and "Online Drive".... What's so new about that?

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Monday 4th July 2011 10:35 GMT Peter Gordon

Oh. I was hoping for a new Oric machine :)

That would have been much more fun.

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Monday 4th July 2011 11:05 GMT Terry Barnes

Oric Extended Basic V1.1

Crikey, that's a good 192K of RAM between those four Orics. I just hope they've used the 27 years since the first Atmos was launched to correct the dodgy tape-handling routines, or there'll be some upset customers out there. I always found turning the treble right up and using metal tapes helped.

Wasn't the Atmos V2.0 called the Stratos though? Demo-ed the day before Oric went bust, to be then bought by a French company called Eureka and launched some months later with a Minitel modem and renamed the Telestrat...

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Monday 4th July 2011 15:44 GMT Toastan Buttar

Great minds...

I can see from the above comments that everyone else thought the same as me. I tried to buy an Oric Atmos when I was moving up from my ZX81 but couldn't find one on sale anywhere. Settled on a 48K Speccy instead.

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