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The only rule was was to use ALL of the 700mb. I paid for that 800k, you bet your ass I’m gonna use it.

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The boomer in me still remembers Nero Burning ROM 😬

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Are you old enough to know what a buffer underrun is?

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May I introduce you to the concept of punching holes in floppy disks to make them writable?

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diskettenlocher?wprov=sfti1

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There was a program call “Nero burning ROM”. A pun I understood much later

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Ah fuck, I remember Nero, and I know why it is called Nero (because Nero and the burning of rome), but I never connect the ROM to ROME.

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Well fuck me, that’s a name I haven’t heard for close to 20 years and it didn’t twig until just now.

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