On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 9:16 PM, James Fraser <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I spent very little time with the 800 drives. Did >> they still sing to you, or was that just the 400's? > > By "sing," do you mean the sound the variable-speed drive made as it spun the > floppy? Yes, that sound. More a humming, but . . . > Personally, I never thought the sound resembled "singing" as much as it > resembled the machine "extruding data" from the floppy. To my own ears, the > disk spinning around always had a bit of a strained sound to it. It was a mild amusement while waiting :) > And if a particular floppy was vigorously spun around, then spat out, well, > that only served to reinforce the whole swallow/extrude metaphor for me. :) I recall a law school professor who was amused by adding "blech" to his system. (a retcing sound when ejecting a disk). It wasn't amusing all that long, though, and the tools to *remove* such resources didn't come until the next release of the system :) -- These opinions are mine. Noone else may have them without paying my retainer. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
