Like, yeah, I get it. There‘s quite a few sounds that trigger emotional reactions in me.
The whirring and buzzing of the PSU. The Award BIOS beep. The seeking sound of an empty 3.5 inch disk drive. The slight CRT zang between different resolutions - and the electrical drizzle of degaussing such a beast.
But to this day nothing amazes me more than opening a MacBook and it being dead silent.
Maybe it‘s because I have young kids, maybe it‘s because I used to be an audio recording hobbyist (and isolating computer sound was always a pain).
But there‘s nothing I enjoy more than the powerful sound of silence.
Speaking of dead silent, I had an old PowerEdge server that was anything but quiet, let alone silent. That thing sounded like a jet taking off! I had to wait for the wife and kids to leave before I could turn it on and start tinkering. It was real heavy and I would put it on the kitchen bar and hook up an old monitor to it and just geek out for a while.
If there's one thing I don't miss in computing, it's hard drives, especially the noise of hard drives. Clickety clickety. I associate it with my first "real" computer, which had 4MB of RAM and swapped constantly.
It was fun reading your post but then I realized, what are you arguing against? The OP is just reflecting on fond memories like you are. Not saying anything about modern computers.
Can I have fond memories while also appreciate modern hardware? Or they're just mutually exclusive?
I didn't read their reply as merely responding to parent comment about being more fond of the 10k rpm drive than their first SSD, saying that they personally appreciated their first silent computer.
Like you said:
> The OP is just reflecting on fond memories like you are.
In fact, if you read it again, you'll see they are acknowledging the appeal and fondness for computer noises of old...
Like, yeah, I get it. There‘s quite a few sounds that trigger emotional reactions in me.
The whirring and buzzing of the PSU. The Award BIOS beep. The seeking sound of an empty 3.5 inch disk drive. The slight CRT zang between different resolutions - and the electrical drizzle of degaussing such a beast.
But to this day nothing amazes me more than opening a MacBook and it being dead silent.
Maybe it‘s because I have young kids, maybe it‘s because I used to be an audio recording hobbyist (and isolating computer sound was always a pain).
But there‘s nothing I enjoy more than the powerful sound of silence.