<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">I would use Apple's own graphics on their Time Machine page as a clue. They clearly show some kind of external hard disk attached to an iMac:<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF0000"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><A href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/timemachine.html">http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/timemachine.html</A></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Michael</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Aug 9, 2006, at 1:34 PM, Stroller wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">The first is that - unless I missed it in the keynote, I have to admit that I enjoyed it but didn't pay full attention - is that it doesn't seem to be a backup so much as a versioning file system. A VFS is NOT a back up. What happens if the whole drive goes clicky-clicky-clicky? You can't go back in time to a file which the disk can't physically read anymore.</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>