>*click*>*vhooooo*>*VRR VRR BRRT*>*clkclkclkclkclk*>*vhooooooom*>*BEEP*>*vrrrrrrrrrrr*I miss the times when computers were actually loud as fuck when they were spinning up and running. Dead silence is boring.
>>108640168harddisks, optical drives and loud fans all still exist you don't even have to sacrifice on modernity and I'm sure you can find a way to make it beep if you bother browsing around a bit
>>108640622I mean, I do have a BluRay drive, and a hard drive, and high RPM fans, and I soldered a DIY PC speaker, but it's just not the same noise. The old IDE hard drives as well as the floppy drives gave these that unique noisiness, y'know.
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>>108640640>y'knowsure it feels more tangible and human and grounded but normies hate that stuff slim sleek minimal and quiet is just where the money is
>>108640644>a little piezo to go krrkrkrrkrr on HDD activity LEDwtf I might get one of these now this is so stupid but seems fun as shit to have
>>108640168I'm a zoomer who grew up in the XP era and i can reliably say you just have a case of oldfag dysphoria.
>>108640687Well I'm also a zoomer who grew up on a mix of XP/98/2000 legacy hardware and I'm fully aware how dogshit it is, but it doesn't change the fact that computers having more mechanical noise in them was p fun and modern computers miss unique sounds like that. Sure my BD will do a funky laser noise on boot, and my PC speaker will throw a nice crisp beep on POST, but it's just not the same.
>>108640685there's several different models of thosesome make even more faithful HDD sounds using samples and not just piezo crackling
>>108640168Computer sounds are s o v l
>>108640719>some make even more faithful HDD sounds using samplesDoesn't seem like they're what Serdaco offers. Any info on where to find those?
>>108640737I have to check too, don't have one myself but saw it in some retro PC youtubers video
>>108640743Might've been this, looks like a relatively fresh projecthttps://youtu.be/sASOfpzPjxgHopefully it'll continue developing and won't be focused solely on retro PC's. Then again, it's not like there's a lot of hoopla in hooking up the exact same disk activity LED that you had in the 80's to one.
>>108640640just buy an old computer then?
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>>108640168>dad comes in and beats your ass for making noise waking him up in the middle of the night (it's 9:43PM)
I remember I could hear the noises made by the pc from the room next door
>>108640640I'm planning to find a way to adapt a floppy drive internally using a USB adapter board and mount it in my PC. I already have new hardware in an old case so it'll look right at home.>>108640729trvke
>>108642724instead of USB-A plug, get one with mobo USB headeror if you want fancier, one of KryoFlux's modern alternatives like GreaseWeazle
