DIY Techno-hacksOld hard drive platters make wonderfully good drinks coasters - they look dead smart and expensive and you've stopped people reading your old data into the bargain.
Have you taped all your remotes together, peep-show-style? Have you wired your doorbell to the toilet? What enterprising DIY have you done with technology?
Extra points for using sellotape rather than solder.
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chthonic, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 12:30)
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Impressed by back-up tapes?*I still have a collection of 7inch floppies [oo-err], some punch tape, some 80-column programming spec sheets, and punch cards from the IBM System3 [http://www.boegvald.dk/system3/hartmann2.jpg]**
Bow to my technological inferiority.
*clicks
** not me in teh photo
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Piper Alpha is being a grumpy northerm bastard on:, Fri 21 Aug 2009, 6:08,
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It was a really big diskand it had shiny metal bits on it and screws and all kinds of stuff.
I wanted to take it home and take it apart.
It's not just me is it? Everyone gets that urge to destroy things that are no longer needed and you can see how to open them, right?
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