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I remember being acutely sensitive to the sound of a good floppy being read vs. a bad floppy when I was getting into computers. Likewise being able to hear if

I remember being acutely sensitive to the sound of a good floppy being read vs. a bad floppy when I was getting into computers. Likewise being able to hear if you and the BBS were properly connecting or not. Hearing your modem retry the handshake after dialling 90 times to get into a popular one was heartbreaking.

SergeAx 6y ago
When playing with Agat, Soviet Apple II clone, I've altered couple of bytes in RWTS (reat/write track/sector) routine from nop;nop; to clicking sound. That way I got gentle rattle wheh floppy was reading/writing okay and pauses when something was going wrong. Later I've found out that piece of code was written by Wozniak himself.