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I actually used to store a KeePass database on a floppy drive. Because it can be taken offline simply by removing the floppy disk. And since it's a floppy disk, you can very clearly HEAR it whenever a
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Mar 06, 2026
@quad Yeah, you used to be able to hear what a computer was doing and thus know when it next needed attention.
First this was the teletype, paper tape reader and paper tape punch. Then it was the floppy disk. Plus there's the printer. Then there was the rattling of the hard disk.
But these days of SSDs all you've got to go on is the fan noise - when the fan winds down your build is finished. Despite being such a small cue compared to what we've had before this is still useful!
(Yes, I did hear of people back in the day putting a loudspeaker across one of the higher address lines (A14 or whatever) and claiming to be able to tell from the resulting music exactly which bit of code was running.)
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