Awesome, the 2.0 decommissioning last week had scared. There's a spectacular variety of ways that music has been made in unconventional electromechanical ways--

Awesome, the 2.0 decommissioning last week had scared. There's a spectacular variety of ways that music has been made in unconventional electromechanical ways--on the head motors of floppy drives 3.5", 5.25", and 8", on hard drive voice coils, scanner carriage motors, steppers wherever the're found in CNC devices, dot-matrix printheads, pulsed laser cutters, tesla coils, all the way back to radio interference generated by the IBM 1401 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPk8MVEmiTI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPk8MVEmiTI). The 1401 video I actually saw in an older related HN submission; lots of comments linking out to different examples in these threads. Here are a couple, someone might be able to aggregate a bunch more: "Eye of the Tiger" played on a dot-matrix printer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9286555 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9286555 (2015, 62 comments) "Imperial March" on a single floppy drive: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2230849 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2230849 (2011, 27 comments) Both the news site and original video of the second submission are lost to time, but luckily our saviour (of web content) Brewster Kahle has graced us with a copy in the Internet Archive.[1] The Wayback Machine also remembers a time when YouTube recommendations bore greater relevance--those on the archived video page from 2011[2] are entirely of videos of computer hardware music. Some might even still be up today. [1] https://web.archive.org/web/0id_/wayback-fakeurl.archive.org/yt/X4SCSGRVAQE https://web.archive.org/web/0id_/wayback-fakeurl.archive.org... [2] https://web.archive.org/web/0/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4SCSGRVAQE https://web.archive.org/web/0/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... "Imperial March" was also what was played on the first incarnation of the Floppotron, with an impressively full sound from only two floppy drives (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHJOz_y9rZE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHJOz_y9rZE). And perhaps related are those videos of the pleasingly periodic percussion of uncontrolled devices like (broken) washing machines, electronic typewriters, and air conditioners.