I worked for a fledgling consultancy in 1995, and we spent a small fortune on a 4GB drive for the network server (which was HUGE in those days - in my previous

I worked for a fledgling consultancy in 1995, and we spent a small fortune on a 4GB drive for the network server (which was HUGE in those days - in my previous role the entire IT department of 20-ish people had a 4GB shared network space to work off, which was plenty. Having that on a single drive in a single box was cutting-edge!). The drive took ~5s to spin up, and made this incredible "vvvvvvmmmmm" noise as it did so, as the inertia of god-know-how-many disk platters was overcome by the motor. Once running, the machine then took another 30s+ to actually boot up into Windows NT, making clunking and whirring noises all the time. Booting this monster up was the morning ritual, together with getting the coffee machine brewing and opening the blinds. Sometimes I hear a similar sound of an electric motor fighting inertia, and it always takes me back to those days.