Jay Drake 🇨🇦 ≠51<p>… I have seen things you wouldn’t believe …</p><p>… ribbon cables for hard drives… Master/Slave <a href="https://mefi.social/tags/SCSI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SCSI</span></a> termination… (mind screams in rebellion)… the little switch boxes to hook your original <a href="https://mefi.social/tags/Nintendo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nintendo</span></a> console or <a href="https://mefi.social/tags/VIC20" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VIC20</span></a> to a TV and then get headaches from staring at the TV CRT too closely…. a VIC-20 cassette drive with a box of about 150+ unlabeled tapes… painstakingly typed in from the listings in <a href="https://mefi.social/tags/BYTE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BYTE</span></a> magazines… Taking low-density 3.5″ floppies, and drilling/punching a hole through to double your storage and make them “high-density”…. the squeal of a modem (and trying to get the <a href="https://mefi.social/tags/IRQ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IRQ</span></a> conflicts resolved via changing jumper switches)… attempting to connect to <a href="https://mefi.social/tags/Datapac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Datapac</span></a> to try and reach unknown systems, running a <a href="https://mefi.social/tags/BBS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BBS</span></a> inside a <a href="https://mefi.social/tags/DOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOS</span></a> box, on #386(SX) <a href="https://mefi.social/tags/Windows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Windows</span></a> 3.0 machine, Setting up your own <a href="https://mefi.social/tags/UUCP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UUCP</span></a> <a href="https://mefi.social/tags/internet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>internet</span></a> over <a href="https://mefi.social/tags/dialup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dialup</span></a>…</p><p>All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain…</p><p>The clicking of an <a href="https://mefi.social/tags/IOMEGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IOMEGA</span></a> <a href="https://mefi.social/tags/ZIP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ZIP</span></a> drive, whose time it was to die…</p>