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Yeah, but they don't emulate the smells, the sound of fans spinning up and the gentle breeze they generate, the beeps and boops, the tick tick tick hard drives

Yeah, but they don't emulate the smells, the sound of fans spinning up and the gentle breeze they generate, the beeps and boops, the tick tick tick hard drives make, the long travel of keys on that old keyboard with a slightly sticky shift (gotta be from that coffee I spilled in '97).

beaconify 2y ago
Game speed too.
- anthk 2y ago
  Simh does.
parpfish 2y ago
I miss the scraping hard drive noises with a flickering “HDD” light and a mysterious “Turbo” indicator when my 90s PC had to work hard
- hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago
  Turbo was all about slowing down a 486-/Pentium-class machine to work with programs and some ISA cards that required a slower CPU and/or XT bus speeds.
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  - parpfish 2y ago
    wait... so turbo made it slower?
    - dr_kiszonka 2y ago
      De-pressing turbo made the computer slower. Pressing it made the computer run at its normal speed.
deafpolygon 2y ago
Or that click of death that plagued zip drives.
- Hnrobert42 2y ago
  My Dell had one in college. Everyone thought it was cool until the click-CLICK click-CLICK. Dell replaced it twice. Then I gave up. When did I ever really need to transfer 100MB anyway?
  - NikkiA 2y ago
    The click of death was transferrable via a disk having been damaged by a drive with the c-o-d, that's why 'replacing the drive' wasn't really a solution, you'd need to also throw all your zip disks and buy new. Basically, it was a hardware virus.
flomo 2y ago
Yes, but old computers also do not do that, because they no longer work. (And if they do, it's not with some 30 year old hard drive.) Maybe 80% of the working computers I have put on the shelf do not even boot after a few years. It's a fair question, I think. Maybe electronics just lose their spirit.
anthk 2y ago
FS-UAE emulates even the floppy/HD head sounds and scrapping the media too.
raverbashing 2y ago
These were all very nice, and reminiscent of the time Then you remember you need to install Windows 9x or 2000 on it and the CD-ROM reader is kinda flaky, and you barely can download anything with IE 6, so now you would need an TLS bridge or use a usb-drive. Oh yeah and don't forget you need a small partition formatted on FAT32

beaconify 2y ago

Game speed too.

anthk 2y ago
Simh does.

parpfish 2y ago

I miss the scraping hard drive noises with a flickering “HDD” light and a mysterious “Turbo” indicator when my 90s PC had to work hard

hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago
Turbo was all about slowing down a 486-/Pentium-class machine to work with programs and some ISA cards that required a slower CPU and/or XT bus speeds.
- deleted 2y ago
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- parpfish 2y ago
  wait... so turbo made it slower?
  - dr_kiszonka 2y ago
    De-pressing turbo made the computer slower. Pressing it made the computer run at its normal speed.

deafpolygon 2y ago

Or that click of death that plagued zip drives.

Hnrobert42 2y ago
My Dell had one in college. Everyone thought it was cool until the click-CLICK click-CLICK. Dell replaced it twice. Then I gave up. When did I ever really need to transfer 100MB anyway?
- NikkiA 2y ago
  The click of death was transferrable via a disk having been damaged by a drive with the c-o-d, that's why 'replacing the drive' wasn't really a solution, you'd need to also throw all your zip disks and buy new. Basically, it was a hardware virus.

flomo 2y ago

Yes, but old computers also do not do that, because they no longer work. (And if they do, it's not with some 30 year old hard drive.) Maybe 80% of the working computers I have put on the shelf do not even boot after a few years. It's a fair question, I think. Maybe electronics just lose their spirit.

anthk 2y ago

FS-UAE emulates even the floppy/HD head sounds and scrapping the media too.

raverbashing 2y ago

These were all very nice, and reminiscent of the time Then you remember you need to install Windows 9x or 2000 on it and the CD-ROM reader is kinda flaky, and you barely can download anything with IE 6, so now you would need an TLS bridge or use a usb-drive. Oh yeah and don't forget you need a small partition formatted on FAT32