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The soft hum (lemmy.ml)
submitted 5 months ago by cypherpunks@lemmy.ml to c/internetfuneral@lemmy.world
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image descriptionPhotographs of the front and back of Apple's original Mac 128k. A finger is touching the power switch on the back, and a hand is inserting a floppy disk into the front. Text below reads: Insert the Macintosh System Disk into the disk drive, metal end first, label side up. Push the disk until it clicks into place. The soft hum is your Macintosh getting information from the disk. A message appears, welcoming you to Macintosh.

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[-] Thorry84@feddit.nl 54 points 5 months ago

"Soft hum"

UUUUGH UUUUUGH PRRRRRRRR PRRRRRRR PRRRRRTTTTTTTT THUNKA THUNKA THUNKA UUUUGH

Boot failed

[-] bhamlin@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

Thanks, now my keyboard is full of soda.

[-] jpreston2005@lemmy.world 38 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

There is something so damned satisfying about inserting a floppy disk, that the younger generation will never know. It's like the sound of the needle dropping onto the initial smooth surface of the vinyl record, but even more satisfying because the computer turns into a field machine for a second with all of it's "KA-CHUNK WHRRRRRR THUNKA THUNKA THUNKA DICT DIT DIT" noises

[-] constantokra@lemmy.one 12 points 5 months ago

You can get a double speed Sony USB floppy drive for something like 20 bucks. If nothing else you can store a backup of your password database and contacts on a floppy.

[-] Zoot@reddthat.com 10 points 5 months ago

Just be sure to create many many many different floppy disks, never test them, and eventually use them as coasters.

[-] Vespair@lemm.ee 8 points 5 months ago

I agree entirely and will add that hell, I even miss the satisfying sound of the CD drive opening and closing slowly with its mechanical whirr

[-] Num10ck@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

https://youtu.be/ZnFQZa8SKP8

you can use a sample for your current system tones?

[-] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I wish computer & software instructions could still be this specific and easy for any third-grader to understand.

Now we're all just thrown to the wolves. FIGURE IT OUT YOURSELF! WHAT, ARE YOU STUPID?

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