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A comment on The Secret Life of Machines.

Re:The Secret Life of Machines by AndrewStephens on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @10:02AM (#27748688)
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.

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Re:The Secret Life of Machines by fanf2 on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @10:49AM (#27749379)
The VCR episode has the marvellous "THIS IS RECORDED ON STICKYTAPE AND RUST" experiment.
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Re:The Secret Life of Machines by AndrewStephens on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @01:10PM (#27751400)
Precisely 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

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