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Comment author: gwern 02 November 2013 01:05:24AM *  21 points [-]

Both these computers were using hard drives, as in, rotating magnetic disks?

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Comment author: wwa 02 November 2013 01:16:00AM 8 points [-]

This has never occurred to me! Yes, this would be quite likely. On the same note: Shouting at hard drives