4 Oct
2001
4 Oct
'01
10:48 a.m.
On 03-Oct-2001 Tony Duell wrote:
[How I diagnosed a fault in an IBM floppy controller
by sending it
commands from ROM BASIC and seeing what the signals did]
Like I said, I'm in awe. While technically, I have sufficient hardware
training to pull a stunt like that off, I've worked on software most of my
professional life. Call me jelous, I supose.
-PHilip
You, sir, are, and I mean this in the best
possible way, INSANE. I am
in
awe
The first time I was called 'insane' (or 'mad') was about 20 years ago.
I can't remember what I was doing, but it would have been
computer-hardware related.... I've got used to it by now (and I am
still doing mad things with computers :-)).