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   hankg (hankg@friendica.myportal.social)'s status on Monday, 24-Nov-2025 13:48:09 JST hankg

   • Thomas 🔭🕹️
   @thomasfuchs As an aspiring computer geek young kid I made that mistake too when 3.5" floppies first started appearing.
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     Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Monday, 24-Nov-2025 13:48:08 JST Miakoda

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     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @hankg @thomasfuchs I figured it out the first time one failed and thus became acceptable for me to disassemble. "Ah, that's what's floppy!"

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     Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Monday, 24-Nov-2025 13:50:32 JST Miakoda

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     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @hankg @thomasfuchs My mother was an awful parent, but one of the few things she got right was I was allowed to take apart anything that stopped working, fueling my curiosity and fascination with computers an electronics.
     ...I am not sure how I survived her lack of knowledge of CRTs. I look back in horror at 8 year old me taking them apart.