My first computer was digital. Oh, yeah. Thousands of transistors, each on its own board. 4000 bit core storage, tiny ferrite beads strung on wires. Memory was a factory programmed read-only drum in a cabinet half the height of a refrigerator. It was so fast you couldn't even see the low bit nixie tubes blink. My job was to find the burnt out transistor and replace it--happened a lot.
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You precede me by a bit. I've seen the core storage, but I think it was obsoleted when I started, about 72.
But I do remember Star Trek and the old teletype machines, ***RED ALERT***, ***RED ALERT***, and the bells would ring to high heaven. Most of us would stuff napkins in the bells to quiet them.
And the original ADVENTURE.
A hollow voice says "Plugh"...
I heard a rumor some guy who's dad had died found two brand new in the box Radio Shack Trash 80's in the garage, and was able to get like 10K apiece on Ebay for them!