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A show so brilliant that I used to skip school in order to watch it when it aired on Friday mornings in New Zealand. My favorite episode is the one on VCR mach
by AndrewStephens 5y ago
A show so brilliant that I used to skip school in order to watch it when it aired on Friday mornings in New Zealand.
My favorite episode is the one on VCR machines - probably the most mechanically complex device to have been mass marketed.
- fanf2 5y agoThe VCR episode has the marvellous "THIS IS RECORDED ON STICKYTAPE AND RUST" experiment.
- AndrewStephens 5y agoPrecisely the sequence I had in mind. I wowed a news.ycombinator commenter with this a couple of weeks ago in a thread about how spinning drives store data. Here is a direct link to the scene: https://youtu.be/g1JlUcFKm5o?t=537 https://youtu.be/g1JlUcFKm5o?t=537