It's kinda weird but if I don't think too long about it I still sorta associate 3.5" as "modern", where as the classic floppies are the 5.25".
It's silly at this point in time but windows 3.11 (the first version of windows I used) also feel decidedly "modern" where as DOS is "old" (even though less than 10 years separated my first experiences with them, and both were way longer than 10 years ago).
I use a modem sound for text message notification. It occasionally starts some fun, nostalgic conversations.
When I was on call, however, pager storms resulted in the phone being muted quickly. Nothing helps the stress of triaging production issues like the high pitched scream of suppressors and cancellers being disabled.
This has me thinking but I don't like to assume. I recall most of my first computers really not having any dedicated fans until around 1999 - they mostly used the power supply to pull an airflow through cases.
I do miss some of the sounds that let you know machines were doing something - but we also had indication lights, too - mostly gone now, for disk drives. Heck my first laptop had a second LCD to show battery level without the machine even being on.
>Heck my first laptop had a second LCD to show battery level without the machine even being on
Many modern laptops still do this though. Dell XPS had some LEDs on the side and a button on the case that when pressed would light up the LEDs as a percentage indicator of battery charge, and my 2 year old Lenovo has this feature built into the motherboard EC controller and Bios that when I press any key on the keyboard when the laptop is OFF, it wakes the laptop's own display to show battery percentage. Modern laptops have many neat features.
I think 95-96 was the first machines I had that had a processor fan (at the high end). Otherwise they just had a power supply fan, but it was more “massive” in a way. You’d click that switch and you could hear the fan spool up.
Some large OEMs with the resources to do the design effort could use a large passive heatsink on even surprisingly late processor (i. e. Pentium 4) because they could make a holistic design with shrouds and baffles and know you were getting just enough airflow from a case fan elsewhere to keep the CPU within spec.
Early ATX designs, in fact, were often based on "the PSU has its fan placed so that it will draw air over the CPU heatsink and out the back"
Enthusiasts, obviously, went for brute force designs.
You know, now that you've mentioned it I pity the kids today and tomorrow who won't experience a computer that makes sounds.
For kid me, the sound of floppy drives, hard drives, and optical drives were simply mesmerizing to witness. Those were the sounds of the computer performing magic before my eyes and ears.
Not just the whine, but the deep crunch synced with the drive activity light.
It provided some hope that an unresponsive computer was in the middle of a monumental task. Any flicker of light or change on cadence was reassurance that progress was being made and would complete should you wait just a little bit longer.
yeah, I was wondering the same. I just saw in another thread somewhere "how to get youtube videos summary with AI". This "hurry up" atmosphere that we're pushing towards ourselves will eat us in form of anxiety and increasing stupidness
I used vim years ago, and the list looks like it was written then.
e.g. the package management. vim-plug seems fine, it seems odd to me to mention the others. (Pathogen's readme now mentions that it recommends vim's built-in package management. Vundle and neoplug haven't had a commit in years).
