Well, its the only way to discuss those sounds. ;-D
I miss those big machines. They had a majestic feeling that could never be duplicated with commodity PCs.
I will occasionally dream about them, but not so much anymore. A dream that holds prospects of doing software on an IBM 1130 will make me wake up in a cold sweat; however, I really loved the 1130 and the 360.
I used a Univac 1108 at Redstone Arsonal, and found it rather pleasant. I worked a lot of different computers in the 1970/80s. Most people haven't heard of some of them.
I don’t miss the sound of punchcard readers.
chunkchunkchunkchunkchunkchunkchunkchunk(pause)
chunkchunkchunkchunkchunkchunkchunkchunk
speaking of punch cards in the 60s... when I got married my buddies had gotten into my car and filled the defroster outlets with the punch card oval punch-outs ... also the wind shield washer reservoir with red tempra paint.
I think I still was finding punch-outs in that 67 Cutlass when I sold it two years later.
I started working with computers when I got put of the Army back in 1967. I was an operator on a 705 for awhile. It was a vacuum tupe computer and one could get a sunburn simply by standing next to the banks of vacuum tupes too long.
The room was filled with a soft orange glow of the tubes accompanied by a fairy loud 60 HZ humm.