LouisWhen turned on, a computer should beep, make grindy disk drive noises, or both. This new stuff is unacceptable.
voxel@ExtentOfTheJam this is 50% of the reason I keep a populated floppy drive installed in my machine, it's useful feedback!
misha 
โ@ExtentOfTheJam itโs a tad unnerving with how silent my macbook is.
wifey and i have a win9x / xp machine and an old powermac g4. hoo boy do they do the whirry whirs and the clickety clack. 
GhostlyEmma 
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Very Human Robot@ExtentOfTheJam
You can flash a custom startup sound into the bios!
You can flash a custom startup sound into the bios!
Estel@ExtentOfTheJam what about a random assortment of tiny red, yellow and blue flashing lights with a few dials?
Yuki Meadows@ExtentOfTheJam my desktop has a lovely startup routine, after pressing the power button, it lights up, the fans spin and you get some drive seek on the optical drives, then the whole thing shuts off for 3 seconds before the psu kicks back to life and starts everything correctly. Then you get a bios beep
Adam Katz@ExtentOfTheJam
I have similar thoughts about connecting to the internet. If it's not screaming in pain, how do I know I'm actually online?
I have similar thoughts about connecting to the internet. If it's not screaming in pain, how do I know I'm actually online?
Julie Sqveakaroo@ExtentOfTheJam The computer cannot boot without a disk in the drive. It will turn on, sure, but without a DOS, 'yer kinda just wasting power...
JJ Celery@ExtentOfTheJam I installed POST speaker (still supported by most modern motherboards) for that exact reason, โฌ0.20 all told.
My computer beeps.
It's also, coincidentally, an important diagnostic feature, but that's at best its secondary purpose.
Naomi Baron ๐บ๐ฆ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๐ฑ@ExtentOfTheJam just why I want to install an "HDD Clicker".
Greaseใฏใณkey@ExtentOfTheJam At least the newer AMD stuff has oddly-coloured traffic lights. But I really should plug an 8-ohm speaker into this box.
Calicosine@ExtentOfTheJam Mine doesn't beep right now because I was too lazy to transfer the speaker since I didn't get one with my new motherboard. At least I have an LED readout for any error codes that may arise in the meantime.
arcadeshopper
Sebastian "spaetz" Spaeth@arcadeshopper @ExtentOfTheJam yes, but then loading anything through that connected cassette recorder took all that much longer ๐ผ...
@spaetz @ExtentOfTheJam which is why I have the expansion system and disk drive
Dane Peterson@ExtentOfTheJam Recorded this about a decade ago from my Apple //e (well, one of them), and the Disk ][ rat-tat-tatting the read-write head against the stop while it locates track 0.
@ExtentOfTheJam This is the piece of software I was booting for this recording:
https://archive.org/details/Apple_IIe_An_Introduction
I have an original disk somewhere in our mess of moving boxes.
@danep is that the one that has you do a simple maze?
@ExtentOfTheJam I'm honestly not sure right now. It's been years since I booted up that piece of software.
The Apple tutorial that really sticks with me is the one that shipped on some earlier Macs โ System 6 era, probably. And I think it's entirely because at one point, to teach you how to click and drag, you had to feed a virtual fish with one of those flake shaker things.
Four year old me got a real kick out of doing that in my mom's computer classroom in the very early 90s.
bizzl / fourteen bit@ExtentOfTheJam I also miss the hum of the RAM test. Always felt like charging a jump drive...
Mark Gardner@ExtentOfTheJam I also beep and make grindy noises when turned on
Frances_Larina ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธNow I want it all. The BIOS beep, the drive clack, then the platters spinning up like the old 5.25 or 8 inch disks, the staggered head seek to zero of a pair of floppy drives, and the early CD drive mechanism reset. Oh, and the static crinkle of a big, juicy CRT as it powered up. And the vibrations that accompanied nearly all of them. Computing used to be such a sensory experience!
thorsummoner@ExtentOfTheJam your going to love #LGR on YouTube
Oto ล ลฅรกva@ExtentOfTheJam fr, turning on a Raspberry Pi, that does not even have a fan, feels so weird!
@ExtentOfTheJam A phone vibrates at the very least to signal that something is happening, but an RPi? Absolutely no auditory response? Unreal.
Rebecca@ExtentOfTheJam I popped a mechanical drive into my HTPC not too long ago, enabling it to double as a low-power file storage server, and I was surprised that even those don't make much noise these days - just a few barely-audible clicks.
ParzivalWolfram@rebecca_meadows @ExtentOfTheJam Toshiba's HDDs make a lot of noise, but only on reads/writes. They often sound like they're dying, to be honest, but they will serve the role of sensory input very well.
curtmack@ExtentOfTheJam I will also accept the friendly chord that old Macintosh computers made when they started up.
Dr. Sobek@ExtentOfTheJam Is the Mac (happy) chime acceptable?
(note there was a crashing sound for unhappy mac attempting and failing to boot)
rick@ExtentOfTheJam i also miss the modem dial up sounds 
Jernej Simoncฬiฤ ๏ฟฝ@ExtentOfTheJam You forgot ticking while it checks the memory.
rooktallon@ExtentOfTheJam Oh, I'd very much appreciate a beeping sound. Nowadays, I have to set NVDA to start at login because I wouldn't know if the computer is on otherwise.
Barktic Fox 
@ExtentOfTheJam I'm glad Apple brought back the boot-up "bong" for exactly this reason.
astro@ExtentOfTheJam You probably shouldn't be surprised, but such a thing exists https://hackaday.com/2022/09/26/tiny-dongle-brings-the-hard-drives-song-back-to-updated-retrocomputers/
Joe ๐๏ธ King of NYNEX 
@archastro @ExtentOfTheJam It's glorious
Night M Spark@ExtentOfTheJam If computers never made noise, it would have to be invented.
Tomi the Slav and 1024 others@ExtentOfTheJam also valid for a sexual partner :)
Toast@ExtentOfTheJam my pc has a hard drive from 2011 so I get plenty of loud hard drive sounds :3
iris ๐ก(replying to @ExtentOfTheJam)
Half of the reason I keep a BD and DVD drive (both separate) in my PC is for the lovely noise they make when turning on. Couple that with a little beep from the beeper plugged into my mobo, and I thoroughly enjoy every time I turn on my PC or wake it from sleep.
christian mock@ExtentOfTheJam It also should have blinking LEDs that show you it is working...
@ExtentOfTheJam my modern thinkpad would always beep very loudly when I'm in a tty and press backspace when there's nothing to erase or when I press tab to complete something twice. I was usually in the same room as my sleeping parents installing a system lol
utzer [Friendica]@meowking @ExtentOfTheJam very annoying, they still do and also auto turn on the volume every boot... at least mine with Debian.
Kevin Karhan 
@ExtentOfTheJam would you accept a sound module in lieu of that?
Not like some #chime but like "Boot Sequence"...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5C62OQD7XPc
meganeko - Boot Sequence
From my EP "Nascens". Also available on:Bandcamphttps://meganeko.bandcamp.com/album/nascensSpotifyhttps://open.spotify.com/album/76287k7E70โฆC2Rm6mxQBnm3taIwS...
ctrlsaltdelete@ExtentOfTheJam
personally i'll also accept an ominous hum or audiblr whirring
personally i'll also accept an ominous hum or audiblr whirring
Christoph Derndorfer-Medosch@ExtentOfTheJam Maybe we should add tiny speakers to SSDs to play back disk spinup sounds, similar to how electric cars are often required to produce fake engine sounds: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_vehicle_warning_sounds
Sparf@ExtentOfTheJam @foone gotta say, when LGR showed off that apple disk emulator and it had a motor in it
To make access noises and for no other reason, I melted with joy.
Was it fully accurate? Of course not. But the feel was there.
x0@ExtentOfTheJam Mine goes whoosh! Like a fuckin' movie trailer transition effect.
ahwx@ExtentOfTheJam *Insert Machintosh noise here*
gray ๐บ๐ฎ๐ช@ExtentOfTheJam @kib48 my pc still has a disk drive and beeps :3
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@gray @ExtentOfTheJam @kib48 Ours does both too! :3
And we USE our disk drive occasionally. In fact we specifically bought one because we needed it.
@gray @ExtentOfTheJam @kib48 (our other 5.25" bay has a multicardreader and I hate how case makers are trying to kill the bay because "nobody uses disks anymore"! it's not just for disk drives!!)
@IceWolf can be used for numerous other things!
@gray if we had more bays I'd get one with a billion USB ports and ideally a couple dedicated charging ports (our Vita doesn't like computer USB sockets)
@gray in fact perhaps we should remove the card reader bay and get a USB bay and a USB card reader.
The card reader bay is slower than molasses.
@gray https://www.newegg.com/p/0DS-01X0-007Z6 now this is perfect but it's $50