Re: All Software Sucks at the worst possible time.

On 2006-05-01, Maarten Wiltink (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
"Brian Kantor" <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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<MFM/ISA UI>

Thank you. I'm sure some poor sod was caused great pain by that, which
was kind of the point. *I* certainly didn't need to know it - although I
do have the relevant hardware in my junk cl^W^Wmuseum chest, with a firm
conviction never even to try to use it.

I tend to pull apart the stuff in my personal museum, thereby
procluding accidentally putting any of it to use.

I really wish I could work out the pinouts to the motor of the
incomplete 1GB, 13KG Seagate (IIRC) drive used in that cray. I just
want to hear it spin up. Perhaps amuse the cat with (I caught one of
them putting her paws on the platter and spinning, repeating for
several minutes. Cat's got the same simple minded sense of amusement
I do).

RAM chips from old UNIX servers make lovely keyrings. A bit fragile
though. Anyone got a method to keep the ICs from eventually falling
off with fatigue?

--
TimC
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull
his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you
understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send
signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that
there is no cat. -- Albie E. on radios.
.

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