Posted on 03/09/2015 2:36:08 PM PDT by OneWingedShark
Here's an amazing YouTube video of eight 1.44MB floppy drives playing What is Love?
The creator, MrSolidSnake745, has more of these videos and some of them are truly excellent listening.
Thought you guys might find this pretty cool.
lol
Ah, come on — a REAL programmer would have 5.14” and 3.5” FDDs, several HDDs (SCSI for the higher notes, IDE for the lower HDD-parts), a dot-matrix section, and of course, an old-school SCSI scanner. [Possibly a modem, but then you might count the speaker as cheating.]
The Imperial March from Star Wars was good
Oh my yes! A Mother of Geeks, Linguistic, Scientific and Mathematic Varieties says Thank You FRiend :);)
May God bless you, and guide our course,
Tatt
If you’re looking for entertaining videos, here’s another:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/z8qFBvnUGSM?rel=0
Thank you
They had a chain drive printer at Clemson that would play “Hold that Tiger”, but, that was in the 70s.
I still had a 300baud acoustic coupler up to last year. Don’t think it worked any more, but, didn’t want to part with it.
Now I miss the days of hard-drive races.
(I wasn’t around for them, but I still miss them.)
Amazing what you can get out of those, musically.
On the other hand, the Super Mario Brothers theme on Zeusaphone (Tesla coils!) is still the pinnacle of ‘music made by devices’. As cool as music by floppy disk drive array is, music by lightning is still cooler:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1O2jcfOylU
Or if you prefer something a little more traditional:
Sweet Home Alabama:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbLshnfu0wY
Pirates Of The Caribbean:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jREWMrOs6rk
Imperial March:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9ePilqnsLs
Comments:
007Hopscotch — I love Watt Ohm seeing.
Mehless — Simply electrifying... Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to hang myself over such a bad pun.
masarutas — You surely did spark my interest.
No, because it’s My Little Pony and that needs to die in a fire.
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