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As a kid, i imaged those sounds coming from the transistors in the CPU, because i was told, that they are tiny switches.
by lagrange77 4y ago
As a kid, i imaged those sounds coming from the transistors in the CPU, because i was told, that they are tiny switches.
- dusted 4y agoYeah, I remember the slight sadness I felt when I discovered that the "cool computer sound" was actually just from the hard-drive, and not radiating from the magic going on in the cyberspace inside the circuits ^_^
- BizarroLand 4y agoBut you could hear the sound of the magic going on in the cyberspace inside the circuits when you dialed into your provider with the modem speaker activated! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsNaR6FRuO0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsNaR6FRuO0
- boltzmann-brain 4y agoThanks to microphonics, you can hear the sound of the current going into transistors in the CPU and GPU even today.
- jlokier 4y agoIf you go back to before people had hard drives in their home computers, they did in fact produce quiet, high-pitched sounds depending on what the CPU was doing. You could tell when the CPU was busy and to some extent, what it was working on.