Coronavirus, Me and My Miniaturization

The Coroavirus was a blessing in disguise for me.

I pulled out all my USBs and SATA external disks (miniaturized now) and made all of them bootable.

Not only that some of them I have loaded with my favourite films.

Only a few games but  Computer Bridge was at top of the list.

I was very bad bidding and financing in Bridge as an undergraduate, since I learnt bridge watching  engineering students playing.

I have a very good understanding the card  pack watching my father playing local and primitive games.

I hated children card games.

They were two simple for my physics and mathematic brain.

52 cards little over 100 that our teachers wanted us to count was boring and repetitive.

But my mathematical brain was more suited to files and programming in Linux.

Little over 100 MB USB stick was packed with Linux executive files in Pendrive Linux, that, I used to carry in my front pocket.

It started with floppy disks and 40 odd Windows 95 operating system, I started hating from the very beginning.

In, reality I started with Debian 6 on a 4 MB RAM.

The first computer of my son.

Even though, I was not a.computer guy my brain was a better computer to figure out a solution for a problem.

Try posting again.
Why this is going to draft instead of posting?

All what you need is Network and a.networks of files to boot an OEM.

Loading them with Windows on defective HDD drives dumped on the University by ComputerAge and  other companies that have gone bust in Colombo which names, I forget for good reasons.

Kandy did not have computer companies then and ComputerAge was a little company in Kandy, owned by  one of those guys from Kandy who pioneered it at the business end of the spectrum.

I do not go there except for curtsey call, since he only knows windows and nothing else.

He used to go to Singapore and bring some good stuff which I used to buy.

I learned the TRICK of going to Singapore for a shopping spree and not UK business but books and.academic stuff.

Singapore also has good book store the Popplar, which I visit every time, I visit there but not like Foyles in UK.

Two of those gadgets I removed were  the early versions of SATA, one was 120 GB and the other was 320 and I am still looking for  external casings to put them in.

I can mount them with various sort of external jumpers but at my age bit risky with live wire.

I have burned a few speakers and I only have the external casing of them now to remind me my wrong connecting skills, right in front of my kids.

I have burnt a few media gadgets, too but never a HDD or SATA drive.

The nifty 320 Imation Drive I bought in Singapore on a nice casing is still working and I have our dog and cats live drama recorded there.

Too, expensive to burn them.

If you buy from a reputable company, they last but not the cheap Chinese Duplicates.

DO NOT buy cheap Chinese stuff.

Coming back to gadgets only a few USB sticks are not booting or reading the files invariably, they are Chinese Made.

Imation 16 GB stick I have all the Linux.distributions, I use for trouble.shooting.

SCAN disks 32 GB SD Card has Peppermint  Linux.

Its boots live on BIOS system not UEFI, which, I never fancy.

Scandisk is another good company and I do not know where it comes from.

500 GB old DATA disk I removed from a proprietary gadget has all my Linux distributions that I can boot with my Laptop without Windows OP which now has Endless OS booting well and all my favourite films stored in a NTFS partition.

Who says Coronavirus was not profitable for me intellectually.

By the way, one terrabyte SATA has Endless OS.

When I get Data back.on my broadband WiFi, I will get BSD to boot it and finally Debian on it, which I accidentally erased but will have  the latest Debian 10, well before Linus put his kernel 15 for testing and kernel 15 and Debian 11 born.

I am not going to buy a fancy Apple pod but instead, I will taste real breadfruit for breakfast.

Bye, Bye!