VOGONS


Reply 40 of 40, by BitWrangler

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A while back there was this humorous piece on a dude's personal webpage about quantum tunneling of macroscopic objects as he described how his CD collection kept losing items that turned up in unexpected places. I went looking for it to link it, but in a funny twist, documented quantum tunnelling of objects bigger than atoms, "visible size" even, has been a hot thing in physics for the last 5 years and those pages drown out the one I'm looking for.

Anyway, this came to mind again, as today, I found a floppy drive right where it wasn't yesterday. Yesterday I thought I had a floppy drive sitting on a particular shelf, I needed a floppy drive, I checked that shelf, no floppy drive. Today, go back to said shelf for something else and there's the damn floppy that wasn't there yesterday, extremely strange.

2017: Basement full of ancient PC stuff, starting to go through it. 2021: Still starting, heh, many setbacks. So what's this BitWrangler guy's deal ??? >>> Taming the pile, specs to target?