I've run a TR-004 for the last 5 years haven't had any reliability issues so far. In hardware raid modes, drives are hot swappable but you can't grow the array without wiping it. I'm JBOD mode you need to power off before swapping drives. The main problem I've had is their chipset is only partially supported by smartmontools due to proprietary crap so there is some strange behaviour there.

I see this all the time when the person first learned to type on a touchscreen keyboard.

I have fond memories of Kubuntu Feisty Fawn and the whole suite of KDE apps that were around back then. It's nice to see that Amarok got a new release recently after such a long time.

It could have been another colour with an anti-glare screen/film over the top with a tint to it.

Do you mean Dune II? Emperor was the 2001 reboot. Two button RTS controls were around since at least as early as Warcraft: Orcs and Humans in 1994.

I wish I could remember but I know we were quite late adopters so it would have been reasonably fast. My family first got a modem because my brother was stuck at home with a long term illness so he was tutored remotely over telnet for a while.

I installed a Gotek at first but found it awkward to select from a large collection of images. I think it will be more convenient to use a hard drive to run games and it is sometimes useful to have a real floppy drive available when I need it.

Thanks for the info. I think I will be using an external interface after all because the 4mb upgrade unfortunately doesn't leave any space around the 68000 due to being right next to the MMU on my board.

Thanks; when I've had the chance to clear some workspace I may set up a test bench and try a variety of floppy images from Winworld to see what works. I vaguely remember once having to use Winimage to copy files from a 360k image into a newly created 1.44mb image for one machine. Unfortunately, that approach (aside from being a bit inconvenient) wouldn't work for floppy booter games but perhaps it could be done with a raw copy tool and the correct arguments.