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Re:Windows 96 by sangnoir on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @12:57AM (#27980390)
I don't think there any modern tech modern that can induce the stomach-turning horror of hearing hearing the pitiful, repetitive grinding of the floppy drive motor that presaged a "Cyclic Redundancy Check error"
Re:Windows 96 by nyanpasu64 on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @05:28AM (#27981874)
Does the hard drive click of death count?
Re:Windows 96 by sangnoir on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @01:03PM (#27986118)
it comes close, but it's not as visceral to me. I guess it doesn't happen often to me, and considering how cheap storage has become, I can always download what was on the HDD or recover from backups. The data I had on floppy disks were more often than not, the only copy I had access to.
Re:Windows 96 by Arrath on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @10:37AM (#27984315)
I once had a CD shatter inside the drive, followed by sounding like a cross between an angle grinder against metal and a blender full of rocks. It was hideous.
Re:Windows 96 by HPsquared on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @06:51AM (#27982350)
The CD drive repeatedly spinning up and down, then heading the head repeatedly seek to the same place.