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[Paul]

Waah, the tape drive in the AS/400 just made spaghettied tape of three of my precious QIC-tapes :/

[Bella]

...what happened? O____O

[Paul]

There's three QIC drives (two in the 9402 and one in the 9404).
I'm not really experienced with tapes and just put an empty tape in each of the drives, then turned the machines on.
Turns out that the drives were so dusty that the tape somehow got wound up in the reels... I'm gonna have clean those drives with some isopropanole, then it should work (hopefully).

btw, is that a PDP-8 on your avatar?

[Chocofreak13]

TANKY IS BACK ONLINE~~! >:3

[Bella]

@Paul: For some reason I was imagining the drives ruining the tapes. I can certainly sympathize with you - I'm not really experienced with a lot of the older machines I buy/find, but each one is a learning experience where I gain a little more knowledge. (Since really, it's one thing to read about old computers/use emulators, another to actually have to use them). ^^

btw, is that a PDP-8 on your avatar?

You know it.

@Kari: Your computer is up and running again? Get on Skype, you. >3<

[Krizonar]

I'm stalking a Power Mac G5 dual core I found for a sweet deal.

[stewartsage]

Nah, they're both repairable and not slashed.  Just terrible weather and stuff or something.

Classes: Registered for.

[Pitkin]

I just voted in the coming parliamentary elections. <3

[stewartsage]

Voting hooray!

I've been reading yuri doujin for hours; this is what happens when there's no one around to talk to.

[Paul]

Trying to learn The Ice Is Getting Thinner from DCFC on guitar... that pattern isn't as easy as it looks.

[NejinOniwa]

No bbcode tags in thread titles. Sad nejin. ;_;

[Bella]

Quotes for the day:

"At first I thought he was a serial killer, but then I realized he was just Russian."
-Me

"You should hire that Russian dude to help build the house! We all know how renown Russians are for their craftsmanship!"
-Me again

[Krizonar]

I suppose Linux deserves a happy birthday as well.

[Chocofreak13]

happy birthday linux, russians are strong, angry, awesome people.
@nej: sorry to hear that. ;^;
@bells: i'd like to, but the client my sister uses to combine all her online messaging accounts doesn't have a skype option. >__<
and tanky is running windows 98SE. i left a webpage open for 15 minutes, and it didn't load, proving the point that just because something CAN get wireless, doesn't mean it SHOULD.

i thought i was stressed before, but today i learned that i might be failing ANOTHER class. >_<;; the only upside is 1. we only have 4 weeks left and 2. i managed to get the midterm i have to make up pushed to next week.
i also get to visit a mentor's gallery show tomorrow. :3

btw, i learned today that a woman holds the guiness world record for couponing by buying $1500 worth of groceries and only paying 50¢. :\

[Bella]

/Is sad that she can't talk with Kari-sama. ;_____;

Might be working in Waltham in a few weeks. Well, the family will be working - I'm taking off and wandering the area, might go museum-hopping, maybe go to the Charles River Museum of Industry and see if that chunk of Whirlwind core memory is still there and do some proper computer ancestor-worshipping~ .W.