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Fun fact: Iomega Zip drives were prone to prion disease. Specifically, a damaged read/write head would damage the surface of the disk, and when the disk was sub
by DenisM 6y ago
Fun fact: Iomega Zip drives were prone to prion disease. Specifically, a damaged read/write head would damage the surface of the disk, and when the disk was subsequently inserted into a working drive the damage on the disks surface damage the head of the new drive. Rinse, repeat.
- dekhn 6y agothis is typically called a "hardware virus". I recall my workplace had a problem over a decade ago with Macbook Pros that had DVI; a bent DVI pin in the mac would mess up the connector to the projector (remember when we used those?) and then subsequent macs plugged into the connector would get their pins bent, propagating the problem to more computers.