The two hard drives I had in this beast were still there, but not screwed down or ...

2026-08-01 22:27:56 UTC

The two hard drives I had in this beast were still there, but not screwed down or attached to what looks to be a roughly 200 ft long SCSI cable.

The drives are looking pretty filthy. Fortunately, I know why they are detached. Probably 25 or more years ago, I removed them, attached them to one of my Linux PCs with an Adaptec card and imaged the drives. I've had them bootable in emulators ever since. BlueSCSI will end up hosting those images soon.

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