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<oerjan> learn i,i is short for "I have wasps in my underwear, and I want to distract myself by saying".
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date Fri, 14 Oct 2016 01:41:10 +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.