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<Jafet> le/rn nightstar//The Nightstars is an unscientific myth of a sky covered in faint flickering lights. Only hermits and superstitious farmers believe this.
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date Tue, 21 Mar 2017 11:07:57 +0000
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ATA is the new name for what old-timers know as IDE, a bus connecting the motherboard to hard disks or CD/DVD drives. ATA has a 40 pin socket and a 80 wire ribbon cable connecting up to two drives to a motherboard socket.