16 Dec
2015
16 Dec
'15
10:26 p.m.
On Dec 16, 2015, at 3:58 PM, <mark at
markesystems.com> <mark at markesystems.com> wrote:
I'm going to go shoot myself now.
At least nothing you?ve destroyed was the last example on earth.
I drove two RM03s cross-country without locking the heads, then destroyed a stack of rare
PDP-10 disk packs (including a RED pack and an ITS system pack) by trying to read them. I
failed to recognize the screeching metal-on-metal sound as bad and ruined one pack after
another, only realizing what I had done after they were all gone.
I then lost a TU45 and its formatter by failing to take it with me when I got kicked out
of my mother?s house. I left it behind with a set of maintenance manuals and schematics
for the IBM System/34, all of which were scrapped and/or dumped by my mother?s new
boyfriend.
No amount of penance and/or self-loathing will ever recover those bits, but I hate myself
and kick myself all the same.