edlinfan (21:57:36)
I wish this was as uncommon as a radiation hit lol

edlinfan (21:57:14)
At which point swapping disks and then doing anything could writeback a gumbo odf old/new disk state to the new disk, shotgun blasting away your data

mirrorbird (21:57:02)
there's always that one-in-a-billion fucking quark or something that knocks out the wrong bit

mirrorbird (21:56:46)
hehheh when you put in failsafes like a checksum, you think "yeah but what if the fault is with the checksum?? so it says ok when it means no" -- you can't win

edlinfan (21:56:12)
Reminds me of the failure on PC's where the drive gets dirty and doesn't send the signal back to the OS saying you changed disks

mirrorbird (21:55:06)
ALWAYS READ THE LABEL -- SMOKING CAN HARM YOUR PREGNANT CHILD

mirrorbird (21:54:45)
i always laugh when i remember the absolute knife-edge of putting in the wrong disk on the speccy. if it was formatted with a different DOS, and you accidentally saved on it, you'd just trash your disk. there was no way to prevent against this lol

mirrorbird (21:54:25)
cd \games\kq3

edlinfan (21:54:06)
Current drive is no longer valid>

mirrorbird (21:53:44)
f

Hymn to Aurora

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