Don’t miss those(except for the dial tone).
Do miss the sound of the oscillating fan at the barbershop, the humming of a water cooler, actual metal bells on shop doors, the steady drizzle of the water spout cleaning the scoops at the Thrifty’s ice cream counter......... and the old hawkers at Cleveland Stadium shouting “Bee-ah hee-ah! Getcha ice cold bee-ah hee-ah!”
Anybody sitting near me still gets to hear plenty of clicky keyboard, I hate quiet keyboards, quiet is usually squishy too, they just don’t feel right.
How about TV station sign-offs, and then static.
Are there any stations anymore that sign-off?
Even fewer will hear bunker ramo terminal boot success sound. I feel good.
Yep, I really miss those days of Internet dialup access and waiting 30 minutes before getting past the busy signal. /s
There are some sounds I don’t miss; like the suction of the intake, followed by the tail-hook smacking the deck, and the screeching of the fourth arresting gear cable, all right over-head, from the first jet of nite-ops.
The clatter of a busy Step Office!
A Model running and the accompanying horn!
A P-51 on a fly by and climb!
I miss the sounds of a 1403-N1 printer and 1401 card reader. I also miss the “thump” that the access mechanism made when it repositioned on the hard drive. The sound of a vacuum column tape drive auto-loading was musical.
The sound of steel roller skate wheels on the sidewalk.
Interval Signals for Shortwave Radio stations.
Back when our office got their first IBM PC, the secretary used it. We found a DOS program that would throw up an error message: Warning: Water detected in drive A:! It would then display a message Pumping while causing the read heads to rapidly seek back and forth. Then it would say "Starting spin cycle." and proceed to just idly spin the floppy. It was hilarious to watch her first reaction. The program was called "Drain".
LLS
The apex of which was the Dot Matrix Symphony, an actual musical stage performance using multiple dot matrix printers.
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Good Gravy, I hear at least 5 or six on this list at least every week if not every day! The husband’s cheap boss has dial-up AOL for the win98 office computers (I’m the “tech help”) yes, you get a busy signal when you call when he’s online. Plus, we buy bunches of “new to us” vhs movies for 25 cents at used bookstores. Heck, I just bought some cassettes for my walkman.
Ah, the rotary phone! When the length of time to make a call depended on the numbers you dialed. I still remember my best friend’s phone number was 357-8887. It took forever to call him.
“At the tone, the time will be, six fifty seven...exactly......beep!”
I hear the CRT TV sound every day. When I turn it on I get that loud hum as it degausses itself and the small pop when I shut it off. Bought mine in 1999, a 36” Sony XBR. It works just fine and is still outstanding for a stsndard-def tube, no sense in throwing it out.