@Gargron 😃

@Gargron PCs sounded similar. Only a dial-in modem connecting is more beautiful, can be listened to still today in the fax machines.

@Gargron @paulrickards
Sounds like it's printing out ascii art.

@Gargron I like this retro-computing stuff as much as the next nerd but back then nobody "took" it from us.
We gave it enthusiastically.

@Gargron these were the times when Machines used to actually talk to us.

You used to be able to hear a computer do work. Hard drive noise meant it's busy reading or writing files, fan noise meant the CPU load is high. My modern MacBook is just silent 99% of the time. I had to put gauges into the menu bar so I could see how busy it is.

@Gargron Going from an instant-on C64 to a disk loading Mac Plus was quite the shock. Mitigated only by how cool and futuristic Finder looked.

@Gargron How many of these do you remember? https://archive.goughlui.com/legacy/soundofmodems/index.htm

@Gargron Yeah I despise Steve Jobs too, Gargamel.