snufkin wrote on 2021-11-10, 13:08:...which is around middle C on a piano. [...] But I don't think that's really what you're looking for.
Yes, you are right.
The sort of "sound" I was thinking of is more of imitating sounds.
In 1982 I got some fun programs for Apple II that consisted of crude line draws on the two HGR pages being flipped together with the floppy heads moving, creating their own kind of "sound".
I only remember two of these.
One a saw cutting wood, one image with saw up, one with saw down, and the drive making sawing sounds like when one uses a saw.
And the other was a hand masturbating a penis. One with hand down, one with hand up, and at orgasm time, the drive got rattling like crazy.
I and my friends all had Apple Shugart drives, clones were not yet that common back then.
But, I bet this would have sounded different on drives from other manufacturers.