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The Phaistos Disk is considered by some the oldest known print of mankind, by others it's considered a hoax. Nobody knows whether there is a meaning to all the signs, or if they're just ornamental. Discovered in 1907 in the Minoan ruins of Phaistos on Crete, it has been the subject of many an interpretation attempt. However, the small total body of text - it consists of only 241 signs - defies any decisive conclusion. If no more text will be found, it remains a mystery forever.
Today we'll have a look at what a HDD looks like from the inside. Featuring a large (5.25", "full height"), ancient 2GB SCSI disk, manufactured by Seagate, obtained via the ancient art of dumpster diving. Modern drives use the same basic principles.
It took about 38 screws to take this thing apart... NOTE: don't try this at home. You'll obviously lose all data and may be injured by magnets, small parts or evil extraterrestrial cats. You have been warned.
MAD was a program I was writing to let me do drawing on a BBC Micro. This was a disk containing a version I had re-written for the Archimedes. Eventually, I found better software which I used instead.
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