Aaron3 comments on Dreams of Friendliness - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Aaron3 31 August 2008 03:48:54AM 3 points [-]

But spinning a hard drive can move things just outside the computer, or just outside the room, by whole neutron diameters

Not long ago, when hard drives were much larger, programmers could make them inch across the floor; they would even race each other. From the Jargon File:

There is a legend about a drive that walked over to the only door to the computer room and jammed it shut; the staff had to cut a hole in the wall in order to get at it!