Posted on 06/07/2012 10:43:43 AM PDT by US Navy Vet
As we move toward an age of quiet gadgets that do everything possible not to get in our way, we’re losing our appreciation for all the magic under the hood. Not long ago, the sounds our devices made reminded us that they were doing something truly important, whether that task was connecting us to the Internet or bringing us back to the beginning of our favorite VHS movies.
A child born today has a greater chance of hearing a real cloned dinosaur roar than a busy signal. But for those of us who lived through the beginning of the PC revolution, these 13 tech sounds will always be hardcoded into our memories.
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Yup!
We loaded that on a co-worker’s PC as a gag but for some reason it ran at too high of a speed to get the full effect.
They usually try reeducation first. Watch the last half of The Killing Fields to see their SOP
The apex of which was the Dot Matrix Symphony, an actual musical stage performance using multiple dot matrix printers.
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I always said the policy should be: Do Not Rewind After Viewing Do you see the wisdom? That way everyone must rewind before they view! |
hah.... i slept under the THIRD wire... but I worked night shift, so i got to listen to it all day while trying to sleep.... SCCRREEECHHHHH.... BANG... WHOOOSH..... DRAGGING SOUND....SLAPPING OF WIRE WHILE COMING BACK UNDER TENSION.. then about a minute later, repeat..
it was musical except for those times you instead heard the irritating fwap fwap fwap fwap fwap fwap fwap sound.
What Ship(s)?
The Iomega Zip Drive “Click of Death”
Yep, that was irritating. Splice kit, here we come! Funny when you mentioned it.
On board I could sleep through anything.
But when I got to sleep at my rent house on the beach. I had to take my pocket watch and bury it in the dresser under my shorts or I couldn’t sleep because of all that dang ticking.
Lex 74-78
Independence 80-84
on the fid I slept under the third wire... on the kennedy it was under the starboard bow cats... i worked the flight deck, plane captain
KYW News in Philadelphia used to keep a microphone live in the teletype machine as background sound for cutting news stories. They switched to a recorded teletype sound rather than live sounds due to announcers running to the machine, reading the story and immediately responding with swear words!
I think they still use the recorded sounds of the teletype machine on their news broadcasts.
You can still hear them out there, although I wonder how many of us still listen to shortwave. It might be a really smart thing for people to rediscover SW radio right about now. Just a guess...
Great historical collection of interval signals here: http://www.intervalsignals.net.
I’m dating myself as I too remember that sound from the old Univac 1100 data tapes.
I still go to that site occasionally. Brings back a lot of memories...unfortunately most of the big broadcasters have abandoned SW to North America.
I remember going into the control room when all the equipment was down.
The silence was deafening.
It’s amazing what you get desensitized to.
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