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Does anyone here actually have a DoubleUp Board?
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I want one of those. Something for my eBay searches then.
I had never heard of cards to aid disk compression/decompression.
DiskDoubler was my preferred file compression utility back when I carried around diskettes everywhere with me.
@LaPorta Yeah, it allowed for exceptionally fast compression and expansion. You could even set up partitions (or just the whole drive, apparently) that would automatically compress and decompress everything as you used them on the fly. Not quite real-time, but fast enough.
It had intrigued me as an actually very useful card for archiving software. I had already sort of standardized on Stuffit, but I never new that DiskDoubler used an open compression standard. That seems like a better alternative since theoretically a DD compressed file can be reverse engineered and even decompressed on a PC without any proprietary software.
It had intrigued me as an actually very useful card for archiving software. I had already sort of standardized on Stuffit, but I never new that DiskDoubler used an open compression standard. That seems like a better alternative since theoretically a DD compressed file can be reverse engineered and even decompressed on a PC without any proprietary software.
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@NJRoadfan Ah, OK. I misunderstood what they said in the show. In any event, it seems like a more universal compression that's readily available on early Macintosh computers. DiskDoubler was pretty prevalent. I think it was the most popular until Stuffit came around.
Not sure to be honest. I know the odds of me finding another are pretty small and I do love collecting oddball Nubus cards.
