An app for M1 Macs that plays the sound of a fan as CPU usage goes up

Re:An app for M1 Macs that plays the sound of a fan as CPU u... by laurent92 on Sunday July 18, 2021 @06:52PM (#27877406)

And it dates back from 1988 for me. I’d always rely on the nice scratching sound of the HDD and the LED to know whether my computer had crashed or was just loading. There was no need for a spinning wheel when you could hear the data getting loaded ;)

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Re:An app for M1 Macs that plays the sound of a fan as CPU u... by samplatt on Monday July 19, 2021 @03:53AM (#27880213)

I could tell what boot phase my 386 + 486 desktops were at by listening to the ticking of the HDD heads. When I installed Win95 on the 486 (the poor thing), the time until the o/s was finished with the drive quadrupled.

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