This old external hard drive can do WHAT?!
6,910At first glance the MicroNet SANcube looks like a big external FireWire hard drive. But it has an unexpected trick up its sleeve...
Sources:
Apple Lisa photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apple_Museum_(Prague)_Lisa_II_(1984).jpg
SANcube product page: https://web.archive.org/web/20020203200857/http://www.micronet.com/products/sancube.html
10/100 Ethernet hub photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Netgear_DS108_Hub_(2).jpg
"Crowning our new switch leaders," NetworkWorld, May 10, 1999.
FireTape 50 press release: https://web.archive.org/web/20020606193508/http://www.sancube.com/press/pr003.html
Nissan Cube photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nissan_Cube_(Z12)_%E2%80%93_Frontansicht,_25._August_2013,_D%C3%BCsseldorf.jpg
"Ampex to Acquire MicroNet," The Los Angeles Times, July 1, 1998.
Ampex building photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ampex_corporation.jpg
"MicroNet Close Doors," https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/01/18/history-2001-micronet-close-doors/
"Former MicroNet employees rally to save the company," https://www.macworld.com/article/164312/micronet-8.html
"Fantom Drives acquires MicroNet," https://www.macworld.com/article/160738/micronet-6.html
FireWire extender photo: https://www.spectratech.gr/Web/Gefen/www/EXT-FW-1394BP.jpg
Fibre channel switch photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ML-QLOGICNFCCONN.JPG
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