Subj : floppy disks are cool!
To   : Blue White
From : Ben Collver
Date : Mon Apr 22 2024 09:04:11

  Re: floppy disks are cool!
  By: Blue White to Ben Collver on Mon Apr 22 2024 08:35 am

That old Sharp laptop sounds cool!  I too have experienced instant regret
more than once attempting to modify/repair hardware and unintentionally
bricking it for eternity.

I wonder what caused it to eat hard drives.

Once i had a Sharp pocket PC with a MIPS processor.  It came with an old
version of Windows CE and i installed NetBSD on it.  It had a PCMCIA slot,
which i could use to get on WIFI.  It ran NetHack and a text editor just
fine, but it was definitely a situation where i would want to
cross-compile the binaries from a more powerful system.
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