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AndrewStephens on July 6, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Secret Life of Machines

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.

fanf2 on July 6, 2021 [–]

The VCR episode has the marvellous "THIS IS RECORDED ON STICKYTAPE AND RUST" experiment.

AndrewStephens on July 6, 2021 | [–]

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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