Re: [vcf-midatlantic] The sounds of computing media
HA, fun! The one sound I wish I could hear on a regular basis, that isn't exactly in the category of your video, is the sound of an original IBM PC (10MB) hard drive pinging away. The computer lab in college had a couple of those, and I would hear it coming from the next room while I did my assignments on the Apple IIe (only the advanced students got to use the IBMs). I am sad that the memory of that sound is fading from my mind. Chris On Wed, Mar 16, 2022 at 10:19 AM Peter Fletcher via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
I was bored on Sunday and made a short video of the sounds of inserting various computing media into mainly old machines. I’ve been told it is ASMR for geeks. I hope you enjoy it.
I did an audio recording of a teletype at vcf east that I still go back to and listen to on occasion. https://twitter.com/daveshevett/status/1124505998998298625 -d On Wed, Mar 16, 2022 at 10:35 AM Chris Fala via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
HA, fun!
The one sound I wish I could hear on a regular basis, that isn't exactly in the category of your video, is the sound of an original IBM PC (10MB) hard drive pinging away. The computer lab in college had a couple of those, and I would hear it coming from the next room while I did my assignments on the Apple IIe (only the advanced students got to use the IBMs). I am sad that the memory of that sound is fading from my mind.
Chris
On Wed, Mar 16, 2022 at 10:19 AM Peter Fletcher via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
I was bored on Sunday and made a short video of the sounds of inserting various computing media into mainly old machines. I’ve been told it is ASMR for geeks. I hope you enjoy it.
-- Dave Shevett shevett@pobox.com
Oh this brings back good memories. :-) The chook, chook, chook noise of an Apple floppy drive. The steppers on many of the hard drives The Atari disk drive noise my dog would imitate to get my attention (yes, really). Modem pulse dialers Modem sync noises (300, 1200, 2400, 9600 and the almost 56K) Teletype news printers (and Okidata 80 and 92 printers which we sold to the news bureaus) 19KHz whine (that still hurts my ears) Back in the early 90's AT&T sold a 6386/25 (Intel motherboard) that was blindly fast at boot. The BIOS message would fly by and you'd boot into the autoexec immediately. I took advantage of that to create a autoexec that looked like it booted into the C800:0000 ROM to format the hard drive. I then read the main directory and wrote it to a file and then deleted it. This made the machine sound like it was formatting the hard drive. The machine with this practical joke was done on one of my coworkers who had just completed is Master Degree project, and it was due that week. Oh, I also made the bat file so it would put the original bat file back. He came in, booted the machine, nearly covered the keyboard in coffee and shutdown the power. His office mate let him know it was a practical joke and his files weren't lost. -- Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry ncherry@linuxha.com http://www.linuxha.com/ Main site http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ My HA Blog Author of: Linux Smart Homes For Dummies
On 3/16/22 10:27, Chris Fala via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
HA, fun!
The one sound I wish I could hear on a regular basis, that isn't exactly in the category of your video, is the sound of an original IBM PC (10MB) hard drive pinging away. The computer lab in college had a couple of those, and I would hear it coming from the next room while I did my assignments on the Apple IIe (only the advanced students got to use the IBMs). I am sad that the memory of that sound is fading from my mind.
The one that I love the most, still after all these years, is the "peep peep poop poop peep" of the Seagate ST-225. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA
Here's a great recording of an ST-225n: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szozyfRR1nc On Wed, Mar 16, 2022 at 12:39 PM Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
On 3/16/22 10:27, Chris Fala via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
HA, fun!
The one sound I wish I could hear on a regular basis, that isn't exactly in the category of your video, is the sound of an original IBM PC (10MB) hard drive pinging away. The computer lab in college had a couple of those, and I would hear it coming from the next room while I did my assignments on the Apple IIe (only the advanced students got to use the IBMs). I am sad that the memory of that sound is fading from my mind.
The one that I love the most, still after all these years, is the "peep peep poop poop peep" of the Seagate ST-225.
-Dave
-- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA
-- Jason Perkins 313 355 0085
Oh that's music to my ears! *peep peep peep* :-) -Dave On 3/16/22 12:45, Jason Perkins wrote:
Here's a great recording of an ST-225n: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szozyfRR1nc <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szozyfRR1nc>
On Wed, Mar 16, 2022 at 12:39 PM Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org <mailto:vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org>> wrote:
On 3/16/22 10:27, Chris Fala via vcf-midatlantic wrote: > HA, fun! > > The one sound I wish I could hear on a regular basis, that isn't exactly in > the category of your video, is the sound of an original IBM PC (10MB) hard > drive pinging away. The computer lab in college had a couple of those, and > I would hear it coming from the next room while I did my assignments on > the Apple IIe (only the advanced students got to use the IBMs). I am sad > that the memory of that sound is fading from my mind.
The one that I love the most, still after all these years, is the "peep peep poop poop peep" of the Seagate ST-225.
-Dave
-- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA
-- Jason Perkins 313 355 0085
-- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA
Maybe that is the one I am talking about. I Googled that model and the pictures look like what I remember. I love that rectangular LED too! On Wed, Mar 16, 2022 at 12:38 PM Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
On 3/16/22 10:27, Chris Fala via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
HA, fun!
The one sound I wish I could hear on a regular basis, that isn't exactly in the category of your video, is the sound of an original IBM PC (10MB) hard drive pinging away. The computer lab in college had a couple of those, and I would hear it coming from the next room while I did my assignments on the Apple IIe (only the advanced students got to use the IBMs). I am sad that the memory of that sound is fading from my mind.
The one that I love the most, still after all these years, is the "peep peep poop poop peep" of the Seagate ST-225.
-Dave
-- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA
I love this thread. Underscores the need to archive the sounds for posterity. On Wed, Mar 16, 2022 at 7:19 PM Chris Fala via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Maybe that is the one I am talking about. I Googled that model and the pictures look like what I remember. I love that rectangular LED too!
On Wed, Mar 16, 2022 at 12:38 PM Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
On 3/16/22 10:27, Chris Fala via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
HA, fun!
The one sound I wish I could hear on a regular basis, that isn't exactly in the category of your video, is the sound of an original IBM PC (10MB) hard drive pinging away. The computer lab in college had a couple of those, and I would hear it coming from the next room while I did my assignments on the Apple IIe (only the advanced students got to use the IBMs). I am sad that the memory of that sound is fading from my mind.
The one that I love the most, still after all these years, is the "peep peep poop poop peep" of the Seagate ST-225.
-Dave
-- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA
...and keep the actual drives running for as long as humanly possible! -Dave On 3/16/22 21:42, Dean Notarnicola via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
I love this thread. Underscores the need to archive the sounds for posterity.
On Wed, Mar 16, 2022 at 7:19 PM Chris Fala via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Maybe that is the one I am talking about. I Googled that model and the pictures look like what I remember. I love that rectangular LED too!
On Wed, Mar 16, 2022 at 12:38 PM Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
On 3/16/22 10:27, Chris Fala via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
HA, fun!
The one sound I wish I could hear on a regular basis, that isn't exactly in the category of your video, is the sound of an original IBM PC (10MB) hard drive pinging away. The computer lab in college had a couple of those, and I would hear it coming from the next room while I did my assignments on the Apple IIe (only the advanced students got to use the IBMs). I am sad that the memory of that sound is fading from my mind.
The one that I love the most, still after all these years, is the "peep peep poop poop peep" of the Seagate ST-225.
-Dave
-- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA
-- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA
The sound of the Seagate ST-251 doing its power-on-self-test dance was also very distinctive. Going back a lot farther, I loved the sounds of an IBM 029 keypunch. On Wed, 16 Mar 2022, Dean Notarnicola via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
I love this thread. Underscores the need to archive the sounds for posterity.
On Wed, Mar 16, 2022 at 7:19 PM Chris Fala via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Maybe that is the one I am talking about. I Googled that model and the pictures look like what I remember. I love that rectangular LED too!
On Wed, Mar 16, 2022 at 12:38 PM Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
On 3/16/22 10:27, Chris Fala via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
HA, fun!
The one sound I wish I could hear on a regular basis, that isn't exactly in the category of your video, is the sound of an original IBM PC (10MB) hard drive pinging away. The computer lab in college had a couple of those, and I would hear it coming from the next room while I did my assignments on the Apple IIe (only the advanced students got to use the IBMs). I am sad that the memory of that sound is fading from my mind.
The one that I love the most, still after all these years, is the "peep peep poop poop peep" of the Seagate ST-225.
-Dave
-- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA
Mike Loewen mloewen@cpumagic.scol.pa.us Old Technology http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/
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