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Comment Re:OCR struggled? (Score 4, Informative) 37

Don't be too surprised. I am struggling since a few months with the rebuild of an old FORTRAN program. It is about 15,000 lines of code, only a printout was available, and the OCR replaced randomly '0' with 'O', '1' with 'l' an so on. Multiple pass with compiler and ftnchek solved most problems, but still something is not OK. Luckily, in the printout there are some test examples...

Comment Some AI-inspired poetry about Zip drives... (Score 1, Funny) 180

Remember, remember the end of December,
The storage, the clicking, the plot.
I see no reason why the Click of Death treason
Should ever be forgot.

Iomega had 100 megs, a kingdom of space,
To save every file with speed and with grace.
No floppy could match it, no disk could compete,
It made our old desktops feel shiny and sleek.

But deep in the plastic, a shadow was found,
A rhythmic, sharp snapping—a terrible sound.
The "Click of Death" started, the heads went astray
, And all of our data just withered away.

So burn every SCSI and Parallel lead,
For the disks that would fail us in moments of need.
Remember the Zip, and its short-lived command,
Now buried like Guy, in the silicon sand.

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