Some of you guys clearly haven’t heard of HDMI over Ethernet before. 
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Oh gosh, you guys are taking all the fun out of this. If I can't answer quickly, incorrectly, and irresponsibly, why should I wake up in the morning. 
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Yup… and having to setup the right configuration for the drive in the BIOS… cycles, heads, etc.
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I believe the story started...."Once upon the pins..."
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Oh you never seen drive configuration until you had to wire-wrap the drive configuration on a PDP-11 controller with a ST based hard drive.
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Here we go...
"I used to wire-wrap the drive configuration on a PDP-11 controller with a ST based hard drive in three feet of snow!!"
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And I didn't have a wire wrap tool had to use a spool of Radio Shack wire and needle nose plyers.
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They gave you wire? All we were given is a box of really old copper pennies and a hammer! 
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One of family's favorite movies - must have watched this w/the kids (and secretly on my own) over 40 times. Ian Fleming wrote it, it's like a James Bond movie for kids (including a car that can turn into a boat or airplane). 
Ian even gave the female lead a Bond film femme fatale name - she is "Truly Scrumptious." 
Good to finally know where the title "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" really came from. Oh Ian, you naughty boy...hiding your naughty bits right there in plain site on the theater marquees.
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and in workstations and servers etc that used SCSI, getting the SCSI ID and termination correct so everything on the bus worked properly.
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At least in the 80's, a request for liberty, leave, or other special request was still call a request chit.....
The military term "chit " for requests comes from the [Anglo-Indian word "citthi"], meaning a note or letter, used by Hindu traders for receipts. British sailors adopted it for small paper vouchers and notes, which evolved into formal requests for leave, pay, or privileges, becoming common in the Navy and spreading to other branches, while a "blood chit" specifically promises reward for helping downed airmen in foreign territory
Makes sense that a chit for bang bang would be called chitty chitty bang bang....
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