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Can concur with all the other responders to this post. You could buy official "wobble stoppers", but my dad made one from corrugated cardboard and a LOT of gaff
by darrenf 6y ago
Can concur with all the other responders to this post. You could buy official "wobble stoppers", but my dad made one from corrugated cardboard and a LOT of gaffer tape.
I used to type programme listings† in, blind, while my family watched something on TV. When I thought I was done, I'd ask them to switch the aerial cable over so we could play whatever game I believed I'd transcribed. Having suffered from unknown RAM pack wobble during the process was gutting, but on the flipside it was amazing when I'd got it right, or almost right - and whatever mistakes I'd made forced me to learn how to debug software. A skill that pays the bills almost 40 years on :)
† from ZX Computing, or some multi-platform books from the library
- jansan 6y agoAwesome story, especially that blind typing. In Germany later (for the C64) we had a computer magazine that listed programs in hex code. There was a special hex editor to input these programs and each line had a check sum, so we could easily see if there was a typo in our program. But at one time there was a typo in the printed hex code, oh dear...