Not gonna be able to dig in for a bit given the rigors of delivery work during the christmas season, but I did pop the box open and give things a one-over.

Yup! External drives like that were a pretty common choice for '80s home computers. This particular one could work with a early Macintosh, or an Apple II-family computer with a floppy disk controller that supports 3.5" diskettes. (As opposed to the older 5.25" type)

Yeah, I wanted to go back and pack in more detail lol

Oh yeah, those are part of an Apple IIGS setup I used to own. The floppy drive's a official peripheral (Apple 3.5" drive), the card reader is a modern IDE-cF adapter in a 3D printed case. The machine was using the memory card as a hard disk. (using a similarly modern ReActiveMicro IDE controller)

I've never gotten the reverence the Clintons get among older people. At best I've never seen Bill as more than a quaint relic of the '90s, at worst I mostly regard him as Reagan's fourth term and an active millstone around the party's neck.

That's before you get to the sex pest stuff.

There hasn't been a normal president in my lifetime, and I'd wager Carter's time in office was the last gasp of the American president as a serious person.

It's all been shades of craven, unserious celebrity-seekers since then.

Oh, this looks like a dictionary file for a spellchecker or something.

Reminds me a bit of the Harvard Sentences (A list of generic reference sentences for assessing audio quality). I don't think this is anything like that, though.

www.cs.columbia.edu/~hgs/audio/h...

UNESCO World Heritage Site

Every now and then I think about whether or not I might be happier if i were to relocate further north, but having to drive a cruddy mail truck in Chicagoland winters takes years off my life as it is.

This is what happens when you build a system where the accountability mechanism is essentially a bunch of "scouts' honor" promises. America's politics are both insanely cutthroat and too naive to survive at the same time.

Corlic Phanes