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Nerd Porn.. Low Level Format


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With this video.. I offer..

C:\\del *.* or C:\\del /s *.*

C:\\dir (directory)

C:\\ /c 'phone number'  ... used this to call BBS's if I remember right? This was early 90s. I lived in Dallas, Tx. at the time. They had a file that had most of the Dallas area BBS numbers on it.. The file was called 'The Big D list'. You could connect to someone else's computer/server and enter a chat room, play ansii games like Planets, Whore House (The main two I remember), ect..  or whatever else they had to offer. 

Sorry.. this video made me think back to the 90s. Before the internet was big.. I had Windows 3.1 and AOL.. But preferred to run my PC with Batch files on start up. Pushing 1-10 to start whatever program I wanted to run at that time.. ranging from Win, AOL, Duke Nuke'em 3D, may have had Doom? I don't remember though? Could be thinking of a later version closer to Metal of Honor times. I mostly played BBS games at that time. 

That was the first compter I fucked up.. I found the 'Encrypt Function'.. and thought.. Hell ya!! I don't want anyone being able to get into my shit!! Next day forgot my password.. MF!!! I was only 15 or 16 at the time.. :unknw::lol:

 

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I ran a BBS back in the days.... TriBBS system, two lines at 56k....

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used to low level format hdds to recover corrupt sectors. After a couple runs you could recover 98%+/- of any old HDD and make it last a few more years. Often you could 100% recover a hdd with bad sectors depending what type of low level format you do.

Our local Computer shop used to buy used HDDs in bulk and low level format them and install them in both New and Used PCs that they would sell. They usually lasted 2-4 years which is well out of the range of there warranty periods so they could care less. The shady bastards.   

You have your Quick low level format that might take a couple of hours, then you have your regular low level format that will take 12+/- hours and then you have your super low level format that could take 4+ days to complete on a 100g hdd.

 

The coating on the older HDD platters was ALOT thicker than they are on the newer HDDs and you could low level format them until the cows come home and it would not hut them.

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