those old hard drives are brutal. Takes 30 minutes for the damn thing to turn on.
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those old hard drives are brutal. Takes 30 minutes for the damn thing to turn on.
Starecase
The Kawartha School of Old
The most brutal hard drives I can recall were the DEC (Digital Equipment Corp.) RA-81 and RA-82 multi-platter drives. Their actuator arms were quite long - and eventually, they "sagged" just enough to start scratching the surface of the actual disk platters. Read/write heads do not like those scratches on the surface of platters. We had RA drives dropping like flies one morning.
That decommission/replacement project for those 44 RA drives was a fun endeavour.
I have about a 10+ year old drive (just a WD nothing special) except it houses my Bitcoin wallet. It resides in icy, solitary splendor on the 9th level of the inferno. You see several of us bought a few bucks worth of bitcoin when it launched. I spent $20.00 and it was .03/bitcoin. You can do the math LOL. When it died I didn't think anything of it so without access to a clean room at the time I vacuum sealed it and put a twin I purchased to eventually rebuild. Anyway now I'm leaving it to my son as a gag inheritance.
He has clean room access
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I have about a 10+ year old drive (just a WD nothing special) except it houses my Bitcoin wallet. It resides in icy, solitary splendor on the 9th level of the inferno. You see several of us bought a few bucks worth of bitcoin when it launched. I spent $20.00 and it was .03/bitcoin. You can do the math LOL. When it died I didn't think anything of it so without access to a clean room at the time I vacuum sealed it and put a twin I purchased to eventually rebuild. Anyway now I'm leaving it to my son as a gag inheritance.
He has clean room access
I was offered a payment in bitcoin when it was very young for this $200 job. I turned it down lol I said something like "no I'll take real money" oh what a dingleberry I can be.
On the other hand, I probably would've dumped it at 500 and then really kicked myself
Don't feel too bad. When I started with AOL I told them to keep their stock. They could pay me in real moneyI was offered a payment in bitcoin when it was very young for this $200 job. I turned it down lol I said something like "no I'll take real money" oh what a dingleberry I can be.
On the other hand, I probably would've dumped it at 500 and then really kicked myself
BTDT
Thanks everyone who showed up. That was a lot of fun. I might have done too many dabs lol. Next week I'll stick to the joints.
Unless it's cold, then I'm dabbing.
Unless it's cold, then I'm dabbing.
That's really not bad. The graphics card is pretty basic, but you don't need much, I imagine.
Believe it or not I run Fusion 360 and Photoshop on it no problem. I do need a larger screen. Doing graphics on a 13" is a struggle!
Starecase
The Kawartha School of Old
But last night only got down to -1C. I had my jacket unzipped while outside for all 3 cones. This morning's -7C feels really nippy though ...
no longer Captain Caveman 
Starecase
The Kawartha School of Old
Yeah ... Cronk is growing old school. I ain't using much of the latest and greatest.
Dboybudz
Dazed and Confused 😛
You grow a heck of a flower tho! All those bud sites are something every time I see em.
Starecase
The Kawartha School of Old
Thank you very much @Dboybudz.
So now I have some incentive to try and get even more tops. Hopefully for the next grow, I will have nets back up - this time with PVC frames and not wood trim frames that warp like crazy.
A scroggin' we will go ... a scroggin' we will go
It's Wednesday.
Hope to see you all in chat. We start at 8pm. I'm taking it easy on the dabs tonight.
Hope to see you all in chat. We start at 8pm. I'm taking it easy on the dabs tonight.
Starecase
The Kawartha School of Old
We have a few activities scheduled for later this afternoon ... but I hope I can make it.
we're here until ten. I hope you can drop by.
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