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keirf / greaseweazle

Tools for accessing a floppy drive at the raw flux level
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The Greaseweazle name #10

Closed staticmem closed 4 years ago

staticmem commented 4 years ago

I have to ask how you came up with the name for this project, I've googled it but no obvious answers, sorry if it's been mentioned before but I've seen nothing that explains it.

keirf commented 4 years ago

I always used to want a Catweasel floppy controller, and so this is partly a tribute to that. A greased weasel is an amusing term and has nice assonance, and Catweazle was a dodgy 70s UK TV series. So I sort of put that all together to get the weird memorable name!

staticmem commented 4 years ago

Ah yes, Catweasel. I remember watching the series when I was a young lad in the late 60s when living in NL at the time. We moved there for my father's work for a year or so. Bud Tingwell (the father in series) was an AU actor probably better known later for the movie The Castle. :)

Edit: I see it states first aired in 1970 so must have been in the new year when I was there but we arrived in NL in 1969. Anyway I digress.