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235 points andsoitis | 1 comments | 16 Nov 25 15:26 UTC | HN request time: 0.454s | source
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haxxorfreak ◴[16 Nov 25 17:15 UTC] No.45946655[source]▶
I love the hard drive sound emulation! I find that modern restorations of vintage hardware using SD cards to emulate drives are missing an important part of the nostalgic experience when they just start up completely silently.
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1. bartread ◴[17 Nov 25 15:01 UTC] No.45954187[source]▶
Yeah, for me there's something about the sound of the power supply, CPU and (sometimes) graphics card fans, coupled with the ticking of an old school hard disk that takes me right back to the nineties.

I know spinning disks were a thing for a lot longer than that, and were still pretty commonly used up into the 2010s, but they were in general much quieter than hard drives from the 90s.