Things that are AWESOME...

[biodork]

Floppy disks came up in the Complaint File, and I thought I'd share something cool. This is a 70s or 80s era hard drive platter. As you can see from the printout next to it, it's roughly 14" across. They came as a stack in the cake carrier that you stuck into a freezer sized machine to read it. 200MB or so, so 1/3 of the capacity of Cdrom.

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Weird!  It looks like a giant CD made of plastic that was left to bake and dry out in the heat over a few decades.

[MattPie]

Weird!  It looks like a giant CD made of plastic that was left to bake and dry out in the heat over a few decades.

 

It does! I have a couple 5 1/4" ones at home that are the same size as a CD, just with a bigger hole in the middle. From the weight and color, I think it's aluminum with a coating of something ferrous for the magnetic heads to read and write. Later platters looked more like chrome mirrors, so I wonder if they started coating the outside with something for durability or whatever.

[Doohicksie]

I may or may not have a professional association with this...

Edited December 9, 2016 by Doohickie

[MattPie]

I may or may not have a professional association with this...

 

Nice video, haven't seen that one before.

[darksabre]

I may or may not have a professional association with this...

So you're the reason it's so over budget :p

[Doohicksie]

I will neither confirm nor deny.

[WildCard]

I haven't laughed this hard in a long time. Earl Weaver sits down and takes some fan questions when he was the manager of the Baltimore O's

 

Highly, highly nsfw

 

[Randall Flagg]

I passed my oral comprehensive, finished my exams, and am officially done as an undergraduate. Feels good man

[darksabre]

I passed my oral comprehensive, finished my exams, and am officially done as an undergraduate. Feels good man

Nice! 

[Sabres Fan in NS]

I passed my oral comprehensive, finished my exams, and am officially done as an undergraduate. Feels good man

 

Congrats!!

 

Now what?

[SwampD]

I passed my oral comprehensive, finished my exams, and am officially done as an undergraduate. Feels good man

Cool. Now sign up for classes next year and never leave school. Don't do it!

[qwksndmonster]

Swagg

[Randall Flagg]

Congrats!!

 

Now what?

 

Cool. Now sign up for classes next year and never leave school. Don't do it!

Swamp's got it close. I'm filling out applications for PhD programs right now, we'll see if any of it works out. (If not I'm retaking the physics GRE, adding some research, and applying again next fall - not letting this dream die haha)

 

Thanks guys! 

[TrueBlueGED]

Swamp's got it close. I'm filling out applications for PhD programs right now, we'll see if any of it works out. (If not I'm retaking the physics GRE, adding some research, and applying again next fall - not letting this dream die haha)

 

Thanks guys!

Good for you. What programs are you looking at?

[biodork]

I passed my oral comprehensive, finished my exams, and am officially done as an undergraduate. Feels good man

Congrats!

[Randall Flagg]

Good for you. What programs are you looking at?

Anything physics, anywhere in the country. I'm placing preference on astrophysics/astronomy, but those are often more competitive and so I'm saying I'm willing to do anything. I'd be happy doing basically any area of research. (Nothing weird like biophysics... and thanks bio, btw!)

 

If I don't get in anywhere, I might have research lined up, and adding that to my resume with a physics GPA that should still be over 3.9 after this semester would probably allow me to get into some schools next year.

[josie]

Anything physics, anywhere in the country. I'm placing preference on astrophysics/astronomy, but those are often more competitive and so I'm saying I'm willing to do anything. I'd be happy doing basically any area of research. (Nothing weird like biophysics... and thanks bio, btw!)

 

If I don't get in anywhere, I might have research lined up, and adding that to my resume with a physics GPA that should still be over 3.9 after this semester would probably allow me to get into some schools next year.

 

Congrats man, that's impressive!!! And best of luck to you!!! 

[nfreeman]

I passed my oral comprehensive, finished my exams, and am officially done as an undergraduate. Feels good man

 

Congrats!

[Sabres Fan in NS]

Happy Birthday, Huck!!

 

*I'll be your huckleberry*

[biodork]

My dad had cataract surgery on Tuesday, and he'll get the second eye done Monday next week.  He had terrible vision even before the cataracts, but now the corrected eye has gone from something like 20/200+ (legally blind) to 20/25!  After the other is done (assuming it goes similarly well), he won't have to wear glasses for the first time since he was a child.  :)

[Sabres Fan in NS]

My dad had cataract surgery on Tuesday, and he'll get the second eye done Monday next week.  He had terrible vision even before the cataracts, but now the corrected eye has gone from something like 20/200+ (legally blind) to 20/25!  After the other is done (assuming it goes similarly well), he won't have to wear glasses for the first time since he was a child.   :)

 

Good news!!

 

:thumbsup:

[darksabre]

VW diesel officially turned in this morning. I am now solely at the mercy of the car gods and a 20 year old Buick station wagon.

[qwksndmonster]

First pond skate last night. Transcendent.

[darksabre]

First pond skate last night. Transcendent.

Soooo jealous. It hasn't been cold enough here for that. Too much snow too. 

[Stoner]

VW diesel officially turned in this morning. I am now solely at the mercy of the car gods and a 20 year old Buick station wagon.

I smell a sitcom. You and Jo just have to adopt a family of Syrian refugees and move in next to Rudy Guiliani.