The floppy disk ("diskette") was originally developed as a microcode load device for the 370/145.

"Round and round she goes. Where she stops, nobody knows."

The best that I heard: "When Chuck Norris was born, he drove his mom home from the hospital.'

When I was 55 years old and people would ask my age, I would answer "Nixon speed limit".

Years ago, I was in a town a couple of hours outside of Minneapolis to support a customer trial of equipment. The town had a Walmart. In conversations with several people there, it became evident that people were driving upwards of 100 miles from various small towns and individual farms.

Patents cost money to draft and file. Unless the company has inside patent counsel or patent agent, they will need to pay outside counsel to draft it and answer through the examination. I had one proposal rejected by inside counsel because "we don't do phase locked loop patents".

One set of motivations for patents of broad scope, is to stake a claim for possible future use, to have something to trade around standards bodies, or to offer as value to settle infringement actions against some other patent.

My contact was on a DEC-20. One guy was in the terminal room playing it for hours every night. A typical night would bring one or two night bell calls from his wife. I poked around at it a little, then found that it provided a Lisp interpreter, which was more attractive to me than a game.

"You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike."

Cadmium and selenium also are used in inclusion pigments for ceramic color glazes. The cadmium compound is surrounded by zirconia to give better firing and color performance, and to reduce solubility of the toxic compounds in the finished ware.

Utter nonsense. Three of my previous banks, including the two that I was with at college age, no longer exist.

How many cumulative Single Event Upsets to an LLM, might cause it to utter the above? I hope that your rat-token was intentional, because it reads admirably.

Long ago, I was in a mainframe computer room when the Halon system accidentally discharged while a repairman was working on it. I left the room immediately, and once outside the door, tried speaking. My voice pitch was lowered. I saw refractive index shimmers, and decided to do forced exhales and inhales until my voice sounded normal, and no more shimmer appeared. I was aware of discussions of SF6 demonstration risk.

Even 17 years ago, the physics department at my local university was preparing to install a bag system for helium recapture. Unfortunately, their superconducting magnet suffered a mildly explosive vessel failure when a jacket was being filled with LN2 after the magnet had been moved. I don't recall if they found a taker for the reported $3600 load of liquid helium that had just arrived.

Closer to the truth: Oval office meeting

The case from friends of family was onset around age 31. Because LLMs had not yet been invented, his source of delusion-feeding text was the Bible. Resolved by shotgun suicide.

"Greed is good" -- G. Gekko