Today in computing history: The iPod Server

The iPod server was a powerful first iteration music sharing device. While not designed for convenience, its internal RAID can still be expanded with modern compact flash cards for 1.25TB of on-the-go storage.

Image transcription: A photo of an early iPod with colour display running macosx server 1.2. It looks cumbersomely thick, but also desirable.

(Originally published earlier today on bitbang.social)

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ITT, it’s unclear if people realize the image is a joke.
cumbersomely thick, but also desirable
Go on...
@NanoRaptor I once had a Mac guy turn up at my workplace and tell me 'the document you need is on this iPod'.
I plugged it into a Linux machine and it mounted the filesystem just fine.
The horrors I saw in that filesystem, how it was laid out and how the iPod needed to use its database to present real names to the user ....
I never want to see that again.
- how the iPod needed to use its database to present real names to the user
  I mean in Apple's defense you wouldn't want a media player to show filenames to the user anyways, you would want to display the artist/track name from the mp3 tags. The 4 letter filenames are a hash table presumably due to length restrictions in the firmware and/or performance reasons
  
  The track data and everything is stored in the file, the file name is irrelevant.

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