I present geekiness squared here.
how does this work
- Collect underpants.
- ???
- Profit!
Fucking magnets, man.
He’s accessing different parts of the disc, which require the drive to spin at various rates to read them, and the different rates of spin produce the different tones.
If you want something really impressive, back in the old, old days (well before my time), a disc drive was a monstrous thing the size of a washing machine, and contained a stack of discs the size of pizzas. Spinning those up could cause the machine to lurch across the floor. Some programmers had races, where they tried to get the machines to access the discs in such a way as to lurch most quickly, and one programmer once managed to accidentally get himself trapped by a disc drive blocking the door.
That is…awesome.
The drive speed is only 1/2 of the equation - the other half is the sound the stepper motor makes when it moves the head.
I will see your Imperial March Floppy Drives, and raise you a God Save the Queen Formula One Car.
I’ll raise you Super Mario Brothers played on twin Tesla coils!
Yes, I know it’s been posted here before, but it’s still cool.
Somewhere in the next world, Thaddeus Cahill is smiling.
Those are pretty cool!