December 2010
3 posts
The Best Debugging Story I've Ever Heard
Back in the early 80’s, my dad worked at Storage Technology, a now-defunct corporate entity that made tape drives and pneumatic systems to drive these tapes at high speeds – for that period of time.
(Used under license from Laughing Squid. The original is available here.)
They had hacked engineered the tape drives such that you could have one central drive – the ‘A’ drive –...
WatchThis took me an hour to build.
It’s probably a good thing I went in for computer science rather than electrical engineering.