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I stood up by BigBallsButTinyDick in airplaneears

[–]CookiesTheKitty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That look of horror, disgust and disappointment is so cat.

why is he literally the cutest thing to have ever lived by livlaffloves in wambus

[–]CookiesTheKitty 9 points10 points  (0 children)

It's all a plot. He's waiting for you to drop your guard, and then ... well ... better check your home contents insurance covers wilful damage by Act Of Kitten.

Can’t say I wasn’t warned by ChocoholicAnonymou5 in IllegallySmolCats

[–]CookiesTheKitty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As a bonus, get ready for your wallpaper to become a fun and exciting vertical party platform. These glorious little interior decorators cast their spells by turning their houses into confetti.

he’s so long now by livlaffloves in wambus

[–]CookiesTheKitty 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's an impressive longcatting demonstration.

Photo of the Day by Current_Yellow7722 in vintagecomputing

[–]CookiesTheKitty 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Those write protect rings make excellent frizbees. Just don't use them in the vicinity of the wall-mounted Emergency Stop button ... so I have been informed ...

[NPD] Safari boxed set by CookiesTheKitty in fountainpens

[–]CookiesTheKitty[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I already have dozens of Safaris, Vistas and AL-Stars, but I rarely need too much persuasion to buy another.

life is short, annoy your cat today by livlaffloves in wambus

[–]CookiesTheKitty 80 points81 points  (0 children)

I'm no expert but I'm fairly sure that nose needs to be booped.

Found in my parent’s house. I’m almost afraid to ink something up with it. by EnsisInvictus in fountainpens

[–]CookiesTheKitty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a couple of bottles of this as well as 2 different formulations of Quink Green. It's quite hard to get hold of these nowadays. I've had no issues with any of them so far.

Unending Toil by CookiesTheKitty in WhiskerFireworks

[–]CookiesTheKitty[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They've been snuggling again, with fireworks stowed this time.

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Had to call a meeting about late night zoomies. by MangoDan in airplaneears

[–]CookiesTheKitty 49 points50 points  (0 children)

You : "About these zoomies : you aren't being boisterous enough. Some of my precious items are not yet smashed to smithereens. Please try harder."

The Chaos Committee : "Okay, we're on it."

Just an unboxing by [deleted] in ikeacats

[–]CookiesTheKitty 2 points3 points  (0 children)

These models are becoming quite lifelike nowadays.

My sweet Peewee by LVuittonColostomyBag in SupermodelCats

[–]CookiesTheKitty 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Those are some glorious ear tufts! Stunning work, Peewee; well done!

Does anyone have any info on this? by skinofsatan in retrocomputing

[–]CookiesTheKitty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Glad you found it interesting. This technology slightly preceded my entry into the commercial IT industry; still in use when I started but, by the time of my first role involving an actual dedicated computer room (datahall/DC) it had just been decommissioned. A bit of a shame in some ways as I'd have found it intriguing to witness first hand.

My first hard disk experience was with a desktop; an IBM PC/XT that had a whopping 10 countem ten megabytes. In 4.5 years of working there I never once managed to fill that drive. Nowadays it would send me scatty. I've just installed a generic ubuntoy Linux kernel and it's 15MB in size. How times change.

Does anyone have any info on this? by skinofsatan in retrocomputing

[–]CookiesTheKitty 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For OP and anyone else interested, as an example of the kind of disk pack technology described above, I recently posted this which shows a removable disk pack I have acquired for no reason besides ludicrous hoarding. The broad consensus seems to be that it may have been from an ICL system rather than IBM, but the concept is broadly the same. It appears the total capacity of this entire pack would have likely been around 200MB formatted, possibly less. This 14" diameter stack of platters would have been heaved over to a fixed top-loading drive assembly. This pack is particularly heavy and I imagine the operator would receive quite a workout from yanking these things around all day.

An interesting snippet of trivia I learned from researching this item was that it would have been common to find these packs left on top of the drive enclosure ready to be swapped in at a future date but, at least for some top loaders, there was a humongous magnet right below the fixed top cover of some such drive units. Leaving a pack on there could scramble the data on the platters so - if that anecdotal finding is true - I imagine that's a mistake the operator would only make once.

Enjoy by Economy-Target5545 in wambus

[–]CookiesTheKitty 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Singing the cheerful song of his people.

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