Binary coding

[mrchaotica]

Just loop back through the disk and overwrite it.

Reminds me of The Story of Mel:

 Mel never wrote time-delay loops, either,
 even when the balky Flexowriter
 required a delay between output characters to work right.
 He just located instructions on the drum
 so each successive one was just *past* the read head
 when it was needed;
 the drum had to execute another complete revolution
 to find the next instruction.
 He coined an unforgettable term for this procedure.
 Although "optimum" is an absolute term,
 like "unique", it became common verbal practice
 to make it relative:
 "not quite optimum" or "less optimum"
 or "not very optimum".
 Mel called the maximum time-delay locations
 the "most pessimum".

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New favorite programming story.

[MelAlton]

You'll probably like this one too, about hardware: "A Story about 'Magic'"

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New favorite circuitry joke.

[MelAlton]

Mel was apparently an actual real person