The second duffer came from an NT box, but the BIOS wouldn't even recognise it, so we had to give that up as a lost cause. About 5 seconds after binning it, I realised that I've always wanted to dissect a hard drive - as did everyone else in the office. I've taken apart plenty of dead floppies in my time, but this was much more fun. Blithely ignoring the "Warranty Void if removed" stickers (some of which could only be seen after disassembling half the drive), we broke it down to it's component parts. Highlights include the disks themselves - possibly the most perfect mirrors I've ever seen (until they acquired grubby pawmarks), the heads (but they're so tiny) and a pair of surprisingly powerful magnets (as in you can barely pry them apart). Much fun was had by all.
Fun with hard disks
The second duffer came from an NT box, but the BIOS wouldn't even recognise it, so we had to give that up as a lost cause. About 5 seconds after binning it, I realised that I've always wanted to dissect a hard drive - as did everyone else in the office. I've taken apart plenty of dead floppies in my time, but this was much more fun. Blithely ignoring the "Warranty Void if removed" stickers (some of which could only be seen after disassembling half the drive), we broke it down to it's component parts. Highlights include the disks themselves - possibly the most perfect mirrors I've ever seen (until they acquired grubby pawmarks), the heads (but they're so tiny) and a pair of surprisingly powerful magnets (as in you can barely pry them apart). Much fun was had by all.
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Not quite the Neverending Story
I mentioned a couple of weeks back that I was playing The Longest Journey - an entry of that oft-neglected genre of computer games, the…
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Random media ramblings...
SomethingAwful has a bunch of B-Movie-style poster spoofs which are well worth a look. Page 8 has the HP one, most of the rest are pretty good…
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Movie misdirection...
And the "totally misleading trailer of the week" award goes to Bridge to Terabithia. Given the current cinematic drought, I was happy to catch a…
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