I didn't want to make up details. I'm asking if anyone recalls the origin ("provenance") of the original story.
IIRC, the friend did various things to the disk to try to figure out what was up.
Think how crazy this magic trick was: you can literally watch it boot a machine, but then put it in another machine and it's just garbage, that should be impossible...
IIRC, the friend did various things to the disk to try to figure out what was up.
Think how crazy this magic trick was: you can literally watch it boot a machine, but then put it in another machine and it's just garbage, that should be impossible...