Deep inside a Delaware strip mall closet, an old, forgotten Pentium computer's NPC.EXE is running wild, compiling deranged and out-dated modmails that read... well, retarded like THIS! Any local frogs up for a mission? Please find & unplug this poor museum relic of a PC! It is suffering! 🐸
(media.greatawakening.win)
YOU'VE GOT BETA MALE!
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Yeah at my first base I was on a mainframe that still used both punch cards and paper tape. It had the disk platters that looked like a big cake with a handle on top.
One time I had to hit the emergency power off button when a new guy dumped a mop bucket full of water by the CPU. The noise of all of the disk platters crashing sounded like someone was torturing a cat. When I left that base they made a plaque for me made out of one of those disk platters. Oh - I got a medal for saving the mainframe from either burning up or shorting out when I killed the power. They saved a platter for me.
I remember those.
I use to work on systems with racks of drives that when you powered them up it sounded like a cross between a jet and choo choo train talking off. Whistling, humming and click-a-tee click.