Subj : Re: Big nostalgia hits
To   : Bob Worm
From : Nightfox
Date : Fri Nov 17 2023 13:23:30

  Re: Re: Big nostalgia hits
  By: Bob Worm to Gamgee on Fri Nov 17 2023 08:29 pm

 BW> I always loved the overlapping "neeeeer neeer noot" noises of dual 5.25"
 BW> floppies self testing at boot.

 BW> Nowadays when I'm listening to a floppy drive it's usually because I'm
 BW> looking out for that horrible scraping noise that tells me "that one's got
 BW> dirt in it".

Years ago, I found a YouTube channel where someone has made a setup he calls the "Floppotron", which plays music with floppy drives.  He has a bunch of floppy disk drives connected to a computer that uses software to engage the floppy drives' motors to produce various tones, and it looked to me like the software can load a MIDI file and play it with the floppy drives.

Nightfox
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