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Computing | Maximum Maytag mode n. What a washing machine or, by extension, any disk drive is in when it's being used so heavily that it's shaking like an old Maytag with an unbalanced load. If prolonged for any length of time, can lead to disks becoming walking drives. In 1999 it's been some years since hard disks were large enough to do this, but the same phenomenon has recently been reported with 24X CD-ROM drives. Source: Jargon File. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 41 58 49 4D 55 4D 4D 41 59 54 41 47 4D 4F 44 45 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01000001 01011000 01001001 01001101 01010101 01001101 00100000 01001101 01000001 01011001 01010100 01000001 01000111 00100000 01001101 01001111 01000100 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M A X I M U M   M A Y T A G   M O D E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0041 0058 0049 004D 0055 004D 004D 0041 0059 0054 0041 0047 004D 004F 0044 0045 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)473558434755472473559543541247493839 |
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