[wjnc]

The first bad sector I encountered in the 90s left me shaken for days. We stared eye to eye. The bad sector won. I had broken something my father worked a month for. But it didn't break. The bad sector was marked bad. The computer continued working. I rejoiced.

[pantulis]

I remember the first time Norton Disk Doctor "repaired" a bad disk. Looked like magic to me.