Nero burning ROM.
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Meh, burning CDs… ever had to worry whether you’d parked your hard drive’s heads before moving it, child…?
(To be fair, neither did I, probably; my earliest hard drive was already IDE, I believe, and those seem to have already had autopark, but the old lore was that you parked your hard drives before moving them, or the heads would scratch the surface, so park them we did.)
If you held them by a side and shaked them, they were definitely floppy.
leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.comto Programmer Humor@programming.dev•What do you call your production branch?2·15 days agoIt’s dead, Jim.
I want to get off Mr. Bones’ Wild Ride.
Not that I recall, no.
My first one was a 65MB (or was it 85MB?) 3.5’’ parallel ATA one, and while the enclosure might have been shaped around the platter(s?) (could have been a later one, though) I don’t recall the motor being distinguishable.
Whole machine (my first PC proper) was a 286, 16MHz with turbo on, possibly 1024KB of RAM (I recall setting up autoexec.bat to ask me if I needed extended or expanded memory on boot, but could’ve been in a later machine; pretty certain the memory was on socketed DIPs on the mainboard, not SIMMs, in any case, so it can’t have been much, and 640KB was supposed to be enough, anyway), CGA, 5.25’’ and possibly 3.5’’ floppy drive, DOS… 4.something, I believe.
Good times.