[HN Gopher] Thou shalt follow these vintage computing commandments
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       Thou shalt follow these vintage computing commandments
        
       Author : zdw
       Score  : 13 points
       Date   : 2024-02-03 17:00 UTC (3 days ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (oldvcr.blogspot.com)
        
       | 082349872349872 wrote:
       | Re: Point 9, I am reminded the following of the following scoring
       | legend from a psychological inventory:                 0 .. I
       | never exhibit this behaviour       1 .. I exhibit this behaviour
       | at times, for reasons other people find just       2 .. I
       | structure my life in order to accommodate this behaviour       3
       | .. As above, but also my health (or financial health) suffers
        
       | _whiteCaps_ wrote:
       | > I've mourned otherwise pristine machines with ugly gouges in
       | their cases that neatly fit where the power cord had been. This
       | is due to the plasticizers in the cord which will also plasticize
       | the hard plastic shell of the computer itself -- and you don't
       | want that plasticized.
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       | Whoa, I never knew this was a thing. I always unplug connectors
       | when storing things because you never know if they're going to
       | get banged around and weaken the connection, but for non-
       | removable cords I would usually wrap them up since there's
       | normally a strain reliever on there.
        
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