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The Floppy Disk (2011)

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Re: The Floppy Disk (2011)

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Post by hypercube33 »

FirmwareBurner wrote: post #3
prokopton wrote: post #2

I miss the sound of popping a floppy disk in the drive.

I miss all the old PC sounds except the fans.

This has me thinking but I don't like to assume. I recall most of my first computers really not having any dedicated fans until around 1999 - they mostly used the power supply to pull an airflow through cases.

I do miss some of the sounds that let you know machines were doing something - but we also had indication lights, too - mostly gone now, for disk drives. Heck my first laptop had a second LCD to show battery level without the machine even being on.

Re: The Floppy Disk (2011)

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Post by FirmwareBurner »

hypercube33 wrote: post #5
FirmwareBurner wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I miss all the old PC sounds except the fans.

This has me thinking but I don't like to assume. I recall most of my first computers really not having any dedicated fans until around 1999 - they mostly used the power supply to pull an airflow through cases. I do miss some of the sounds that let you know machines were doing something - but we also had indication lights, too - mostly gone now, for disk drives. Heck my first laptop had a second LCD to show battery le…

>Heck my first laptop had a second LCD to show battery level without the machine even being on

Many modern laptops still do this though. Dell XPS had some LEDs on the side and a button on the case that when pressed would light up the LEDs as a percentage indicator of battery charge, and my 2 year old Lenovo has this feature built into the motherboard EC controller and Bios that when I press any key on the keyboard when the laptop is OFF, it wakes the laptop's own display to show battery percentage. Modern laptops have many neat features.

Re: The Floppy Disk (2011)

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Post by lpfnrobin »

hypercube33 wrote: post #5
FirmwareBurner wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I miss all the old PC sounds except the fans.

This has me thinking but I don't like to assume. I recall most of my first computers really not having any dedicated fans until around 1999 - they mostly used the power supply to pull an airflow through cases. I do miss some of the sounds that let you know machines were doing something - but we also had indication lights, too - mostly gone now, for disk drives. Heck my first laptop had a second LCD to show battery le…

Although not all floppies there's something nice about the sound of them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMe2vza46cQ

Re: The Floppy Disk (2011)

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Post by bombcar »

hypercube33 wrote: post #5
FirmwareBurner wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I miss all the old PC sounds except the fans.

This has me thinking but I don't like to assume. I recall most of my first computers really not having any dedicated fans until around 1999 - they mostly used the power supply to pull an airflow through cases. I do miss some of the sounds that let you know machines were doing something - but we also had indication lights, too - mostly gone now, for disk drives. Heck my first laptop had a second LCD to show battery le…

I think 95-96 was the first machines I had that had a processor fan (at the high end). Otherwise they just had a power supply fan, but it was more “massive” in a way. You’d click that switch and you could hear the fan spool up.

Re: The Floppy Disk (2011)

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Post by SillyUsername »

Article has inaccuracies.

The HD floppy is to formatted 1.44MB, not 1.2MB, and unformatted capacity was 2.0MB.

People did not program word processors themselves as they didn't exist, typewriters did.

Later, pre disk, magazines type-ins and software on (magnetic) tapes were common means of software distribution.

How to tell me your under 30 without telling me you're under 30 :D

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