This was fucking beautiful.
You just time-tripped me to 1979-1984 and 1987-1991.
Because I was a technology necromancer.
I haven’t thought about RLL and MFM in ages. Seeing that manual page detailing the nature of the flux transitions was like falling into a wormhole.
Fuck Yes,
Ian
edit: I forgot to mention, when he mentioned writing in assembly on foreign metal, I got excited.
In the mid-1980s, corporations were dumping all kinds of goodies...I either made deals, or went dumpster diving.
Sadly, some of those beasts required circuits I did not have at home, nor could I have afforded the electric bill.
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