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Terry Pratchett's unfinished works flattened by steamroller

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I think you'll find it was a Parallel ATA (PATA) drive - IDE being what PATA drives developed from.

The terms "integrated drive electronics" (IDE), "enhanced IDE" and "EIDE" have come to be used interchangeably with ATA (now Parallel ATA, or PATA)... but's not let facts get in the way of a good joke........ it was a good joke wasn't it??

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