MMaximus wrote on 2023-02-19, 15:36:
Thank you! I'm planning to do my entire inventory of drives - I have around 50 of them 😀
You're welcome! I'm looking forward to it! 😁
If you like, or if you need more different sounds, you can run CheckIt, too.
On my 20MB MFM/RLL HDD (a NEC?), when I tested it for errors (I was worried about its health),
it caused a lot of different sounds for things like linear read etc.
Running CheckIt is not necessary by any means, it just came to mind right now while typing.
MMaximus wrote on 2023-02-19, 15:36:
Sooner or later they will all fail but at least their glorious soundtrack will be preserved 😁
Yes, that's inevitable. Sooner or later they will be gone. But not completely. 😀
The optimist and philanthrop I am (or try to be), strongly I believe that there will be people in the future who will recreate these drives.
Just like there are enthusiasts right now who make new vinyl records or re-built Amiga, C64 or XT motherboards from scratch.
Even if it's just for fun, a doctoral thesis, a museum or an exhibition - just think what work the guys/gals at Smithsonian did put into restoring a '60s film prop.
So those future people surely have an interest in these authentic recordings, too, even if it's primarily for comparison.
I mean, in a few decades from now on, early 8-Bit CPUs maybe can be printed at home on plastic/glass with a new printer technology.
Akin to the 3D printers we have now. As long as people care about something, something isn't gone completely.
(Morse code is still in use by amateurs for exmple, 5-Bit RTTY code and FAX are still being used for weather forecasts on shortwave etc..)
PS: Did you know that *maybe* there's an MFM HDD era sound in ST:TNG? 😁 I wonder what model it is/was!
I vaguely remember it's in the episode with the old space station from 21th century earth floating through free space..
More precisely, the scene in which Cmdr. Data in checking the station's computer panel and downloading information about the passengers from the old "hard disk".
Unfortunately, I don't have this on video, so I can't double check. All I find online is this short scene with other squeeky computer sounds.
However, since the episode is from 1988, it would make sense if such a sound was being used. At the time, such HDDs were still in wide use.
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