[zkmon]

Early 90's were more fun. I modified DOS command.com file to change the outputs it prints, drilled holes into laptop to attach broken hinges, break electronic garbage to salvage wires and interesting things, disassemble disk drives, ...

[marak830]

Haha that reminds me, Qbasic using the help file to figure out how to program. Taking apart a HD and getting my fingers pinched between the two bloody strong magnets.

Amazing what you learn when you have no other distraction xD

[twostraws]

I agree that the early 90's were a lot of fun – I remember drilling holes in 3.5-inch floppy disks to increase their capacity, blissfully unaware that actual HD floppies had a different coating entirely…

[skeeter2020]

Two (of the many) mind-blowing discoveries of the 80's:

1. there was a disk notcher (the Nibbler?) that would DOUBLE the capacity of a 5 1/4 floppy!

2. you could just use a regular paper hole punch and a few select clips to do the same thing!

All my C64 floppies had faint parallel pencil lines across the top to line up the slots and what looked like mouse-nawed holes on one side.