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Ah, night shift in the 1970s. Ciggies, hipflasks, ADVENT... and fault-prone disk drives the size of washing machines

Alan Brown Silver badge

"dodgy disk-packs on multiple drive units causing mass-destruction."

Or more recently, zip disks with damaged edges tearing the heads off the drives and causing the click of death

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