#master control program (tron)

[villainoftheday]

Today’s villain is the Master Control Program from Tron

[analog-machine]

In a computer hard drive, the points (like on MCP) don't actually touch, they were kept separate by magnets - one set of magnets pulled them as close as they could, and the other set kept the two points apart, that's how it spins so fast - and when a hard drive "crashed", the points actually touched and, because it was spinning so fast, it destroyed the discs when the points hit and skipped off of each other

My dad, an electronics technician (and a whole nerd), explaining computers again while we’re watching Tron