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Random Positivity Thread: Happy Computer Memories
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I thought the sounds the floppy disk drive made as it loaded my custom AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS (that made Doom work with my 4 MB of RAM) sounded like a pretty rad beat.
we need to bring back storage with distinctive noises! it’s why I’m keeping the floppy drive in my Amiga even though all its data is probably coming from its accelerator’s SD card
I semi-recently set up a load of enterprise hard drives in my office and the sound they make on access makes me weirdly nostalgic — the drives are overbuilt so the internals are heavier than normal, and they’re nitrogen-filled, so they clunk and buzz a lot louder than most modern hard drives. and weirdly enough, they were a lot louder for their first 24 hours of runtime (maybe something to do with the nitrogen shifting around inside during shipping?) which made them sound exactly like early 90s hard drives
that sounds neat, I haven't heard any noises out of new spinnies I've dealt with lately, although sample size 3 in 5y
(the only other spinnies are the wd pocket-sized series, and they're just boring whirr)
ah the music of the spheres (or at least ball bearings)!
PS: I remembered hearing about this thing a looong time ago. This convo reminded me of it, and it has become something amazing.
The Floppotron 3.0 Computer Hardware Orchestra:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCCXRerqaJI