You guys are too young. Back in the early 80s computer didn’t make any noise. A C64 was quiet as a mouse, so was an Amiga 500.
The only noise it made was the ticking of the disk drive. (Usually no HDD in those and no fans)
I have both at home right now, and I am always wishing my gaming rig next to them would be that quiet, and not sound like a hoover going into overdrive.
Ah, nostalgia. Now, where are my rose tinted glasses?
p.s.
Oh yeah I forgot about the monitor whine, but hey that’s because I have a permanent tinnitus that sounds exactly the same and usually tune it out… wonder where I got it from?
See, I remember that from friends (our first was a little later, a 286 IBM that was pretty loud).
BUT, my nostalgia comes from the sound of a server room. I ran a BBS as a teen, and later randomly visited all the startup ISPs in the area before one brought me on as employee #3. We started with shelves of external modems before moving to one rack, but when we were bought and those few times I went to real server rooms (and times since) were great. The organization, level sound, raised floors, love it.
Surprisingly I still prefer quiet for my homelab, though.
My high school had a room full of Apples, mostly IIe’s but a few GSs floating around, too. I could hear when someone left one of those monitors on the moment I entered the room…
You guys are too young. Back in the early 80s computer didn’t make any noise. A C64 was quiet as a mouse, so was an Amiga 500. The only noise it made was the ticking of the disk drive. (Usually no HDD in those and no fans)
I have both at home right now, and I am always wishing my gaming rig next to them would be that quiet, and not sound like a hoover going into overdrive.
Ah, nostalgia. Now, where are my rose tinted glasses?
p.s. Oh yeah I forgot about the monitor whine, but hey that’s because I have a permanent tinnitus that sounds exactly the same and usually tune it out… wonder where I got it from?
I love a good Womp! from pressing the monitor degaussing button.
The what
The degauss sound on a CRT display. The ‘womp’ is the best onomatopoeia to represent it.
Thanks!
Those c64 1541 drives could make an unholy racket sometimes, I recall some sneakernet software cloning tools making it sound like a jackhammer
See, I remember that from friends (our first was a little later, a 286 IBM that was pretty loud).
BUT, my nostalgia comes from the sound of a server room. I ran a BBS as a teen, and later randomly visited all the startup ISPs in the area before one brought me on as employee #3. We started with shelves of external modems before moving to one rack, but when we were bought and those few times I went to real server rooms (and times since) were great. The organization, level sound, raised floors, love it.
Surprisingly I still prefer quiet for my homelab, though.
My high school had a room full of Apples, mostly IIe’s but a few GSs floating around, too. I could hear when someone left one of those monitors on the moment I entered the room…