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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RIP shirts
So, this evening I did the first batch of laundry in the shiny new washer-dryer in my shiny new kitchen. It killed two of my favourite T-shirts. The…
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That's Mister Bananabeak to you, Fuzzy!
No TTT EE today :(( Am consoling myself with the fact that I got it really, really cheap. Or, will have got it really, really cheap if/when it…
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D00med
Some days it really isn't worth getting out of bed. Or maybe it's the not getting out of bed until after midday part that's the problem. Either way,…
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