Wally Dug's How to Make Your Own Storage Media

[BouncingAyatollah]

A current Register article Will This Notebook Survive If I Jump Up and Down On It? had a link to 102 Ways To Kill Your Computer and from here was Wally Dug's Make Your Own Storage Devices

"With a muffin, you have a 30Mb OFS capacity disk which formats to a staggering 40Mb under the Fast File System. A pancake only formats to 20Mb and cannot handle FFS." LOL!

[BouncingAyatollah]

Before anyone jumps down my throat, I KNOW this isn't really news, I just thought we could do with some lightening up with all the flaming.

Also from the "102 ways..." page:

Project EUNUCH

or how to get a 486/SX25 up to 247MHz with a freezer and alcohol :-)

Dan's Data How to Destroy Your PC was also very good but seems to have "disappeared", hopefully temporarily...

[anarchic_teapot]

A very interesting site, and I'm delighted to note his hardware works as well with an AmigaOne (or Pegasos) as it does with a "classic" Amiga. What a visionary!

I have emailed him to ask if he would care to step in and save the day by designing a PCI bridgeboard to connect the A1 to an A1200. Let us hope he hears our prayer.

 :-D

[L8-X]

I`ve designed a portable storage "key"...it`s usb, and comes in 16mb 32mb & 64mb sizes using memory compression. All from a humble chocolate cookie!

 :-D  :-D  :-D

[asian1]

Calculator using Leech's Neuron

Perhaps in distant future we can build CPU using "biological materials".  Perhaps some crazy scientist will grow CPUs inside their laboratory. :-)

What about the news about creating CPU using "Bird Feathers?" :-)

[Nick]

Thats not fair. I forgot to read the end warning. I corrupted the whole of my backup pancake. I knew I should have eaten before I used it.

I`m waiting for the day when scientists grow CPUs outside a lab. CPU trees sound nice. All you need is a few USB ports, SCSI, Sound and video and you could use the tree as your main computer. As it grows it gets faster.

[AmigaPete]

@ L8-X

I prefer to use KitKat bars. They work out to be about 64 MB per stick so in one bar you get 256 MB memory and if they don't fit then you just break them up into individual sticks.

Pete