On 09/23/18, Vince Coen said the following...   
    VC> i see you are using a pi, what are you doing for hard drives as i could   
    VC> not see   
    VC> how to remove the usage of an sd card and i have zero intention of doing   
    VC> so.   
      
   I have a Pi v3+ and it has a 64GB SD card (Samsung EVO Plus) - I was reading   
   in (I think) the PI echo and discovered a website that did performance on SD   
   cards - and this one got the best review for performance.   
      
   Since the Pi has 4 USB ports, I also have a San Disk Cruzer - but I use it   
   for a local daily backup (using rdiff-backup).   
      
   If the SD card starts to fill up, I'll probably put on a USB/Sata external   
   caddy, with a SSD (I have a spare 128GB) - which I'm hoping is more than   
   enough for what I want to use it for... And if things start to get full, I've   
   got the NAS that I'll offload stuff to with an automount.   
      
    VC> i would like to bay and set one up for some Cobol->java development   
    VC> system which is free on that platform but major issues with mass storage.   
    VC> i have no intention of waiting around will it thinks that going back to   
    VC> the 70's and floppies.   
      
   For BBSing, the PI is great - this one has 2 docker containers (MBSE +   
   Mystic) and I compile MBSE (and other BBS code) and build the docker   
   containers on it.   
      
   I have another Pi - which is a 3 (not a 3+) - and its running qemu and my BBS   
   from 1995 (ezycom). I've been setting that up over the last week, and while   
   it is also slow (by todays standards) - everything works (and it's probably   
   faster than what it was in 1995!) (I did try getting Ezycom running as a DOS   
   virtual machine on my Intel server - it was fast, but most things didnt work   
   - the Runtime Error 200. I did have the pascal TSR loaded, and that fixed   
   somethings, but many others didnt work - like the ezymail tosser.)   
      
   ...deon   
      
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