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The code that lived in my head rent free for 30 years

I have a piece of code that has been living, rent-free, in my head for the past 30 years or so.In middle school (I was 12 - 13 at the time), I was taught Pas...

To give some context, at the time, if you wanted to move data from one place to the next, the only real option was to physically disassemble your computer, take out the hard disk, wrap it in a towel for protection, and carry it to your destination. I recall doing that and then spending some hours at a friend’s house, trying to figure out the right jumper configuration so the BIOS would recognize two drives at once. Because of this, I had a great interest in disk parking, a technique that helps ensure that taking the hard drive from one location to the next wouldn’t ruin it.

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