Once it may have been called ALDL instead. My '95 Commodore has one. Assembly Line Diagnostic Link. Same physical connector.

I remember the sound. Also, it was on a three wheel table, and the whole thing would shake when defragging.

So was mine, but the controller thought it was 10mb so had to load a device driver to access the full size.

Was fine until a friend defragged it and the driver moved out of the first 10mb. Thereafter had to keep a 360kb 5¼" drive to boot from.

That was in an XT.

Similar happened to a pilot some years ago when the windscreen ejected itself. (wrong bolts if I remember the air crash investigation episode.) He survived though. Was held by co pilot.

Pretty mental isn’t it!

I’m in Australia. We might be a bit nuts over here but at least we have Medicare. Private health insurance is optional and becoming increasingly expensive, but the public system, although stressed, covers everyone.

We do pay a Medicare levy in our taxes but it’s nothing like USA costs. A few hundred a year I think.

They are. Not bad heaters back in the day.

UHT milk.

I bought a uv tooth brush sterilizer. Not sure if it’s doing anything useful but it’s a colourful addition to the bathroom.

He has his limits apparently…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8HO6hba9ZE

“Your McLeans are showing.”

“It’s been going on for quite a while…”

Decompose.

Ddrescue

Hard to beat for working with dying drives, although it’s a bit tricky to get it to just do used data areas instead of the whole drive.

Is that because it indexes the contents of files? (or pretends to.)

I think pool would be harder to emulate than pinball unless using a real cue and VR. It’d be hard to have a one to one user interface for this whereas pinball is mostly binary since flippers went electronic.

That said, I’ve fond memories of some pool games in the DOS / '95 era. The duration of the mouse click being the analog to the cue force.

Hehe you’re right kinda.

I take my phone data offline after about midnight and if I can’t sleep I’ll do Solitaire or crosswords.

If I’m really wanting a good game, Zen Pinball is my poison. One day I plan to get an old TV and turn it into a Zen Pinball machine, as others have done on YouTube.

He might hit a power or water line.

I can’t hear you. Or your verb.

So that’s why it says ‘get your ass to Mars’…