Fuck yeah, Night City here we come!

I can’t be the only one who thinks the birds sound like a siege tank.

Ah, Jaffa jokes

Cool, I’ve wanted an OS ROM chip since the early nineties, and often wondered why nobody seemed to be doing it. Guess they were all along!

You technically didn’t have to park the old MFM and RLL drives, but if you didn’t, then you just had the drive heads resting on the platters after you shut them down. Then if you bumped or moved the PC at that time, it could scratch the disk like a record. If you never tried to move it, there probably wasn’t much risk.

From the sound of it, the HDD in your Tandy probably would have been an MFM or RLL drive, and depending on the drive model, it either autoparked the drive heads or didn’t. As a PC clone running MS-DOS, the command was probably supported, but maybe not needed. Or you may have just been the equivalent of one of those rebels who held down the power button every time they wanted to shut down the PC and always got away with it!

This taught me many lessons in life, but the one I carry in my heart to this day is piracy.

Yeah, old drives didn’t autopark like the IDE drive in your spiffy 486. I had an XT growing up, and dad was militant about having us remember to park the drive when we were done with it. I think by the end of the 80s, all drives were IDE and were autoparking, so the command was deprecated.

The one I remember best was having to use the DOS ‘park’ command before you shut down the PC. I guess I am that old.

Once Bitten, Joe vs the Volcano, and Mortal Kombat are all way better movies than they should have been.

I’d watch it for the Europe-heavy soundtrack alone, but the film is a damned masterpiece.

Square hogs! Yeah, it’s fair to say I loved this one from the start.

Looks like an ice lolly

You can post another. I mean, it is a two man job.

Allegedly.

Gotta have room to fly downstairs to the kitchen for that late night glass of water.

I made it 12 minutes before I went and grilled up some chili dogs. This was fantastic. The coverage was perfect.

Scrolling past, I thought that was a hippo in a blue hood. Now I feel bad for laughing.

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That family in particular would have banked everything on mom. I know families (plural) where mom will wake everyone up when it is their turn for the bathroom. And families share cell providers, so a major vendor shitting the bed would most likely take out all of them. That happens more than it should. Same with power and no charge. It seems like everyone’s phone is on empty by the end of the evening. This is at least as probable as nobody’s alarm clock having a battery backup. They all had them in the 90s, unless you were using a mechanical alarm clock, whick would have worked. At any rate, the alarm clock fail was just one of many problems here. This is a family who managed to not notice one of their kids miss an international flight.

Mom forgot she turned her notifications to silent to watch a movie the night before. Mom got no sleep and hit snooze. Mom forgot to charge her phone and it died. Dad tripped over the charging cable and knocked it out. Power went out and the phone didn’t charge so it died. Heck, you could even have a carrier fuck up maintenance and knock out cell service across the country for their customers.

Also had problems with his choice of dog names