The post is clearly hyperbole (I shouldn’t have to explain this but apparently some people around here aren’t aware of figures of speech), but computers used to me much louder than they are, floppy disks were very “talkative”, you could hear the HDD heads move and disks spinning under heavy load, and fans were much louder on average than they are today. On top of that, the motherboard speaker was used very liberally by everything.
Oh, and everyone had mechanical keyboards, but people of culture still do.
Are you saying that because you had the computer next to the dot matrix printer? Because I could see that driving a person to think computers weren’t that loud.
Fake nostalgia detected, computers were not that loud.
The post is clearly hyperbole (I shouldn’t have to explain this but apparently some people around here aren’t aware of figures of speech), but computers used to me much louder than they are, floppy disks were very “talkative”, you could hear the HDD heads move and disks spinning under heavy load, and fans were much louder on average than they are today. On top of that, the motherboard speaker was used very liberally by everything.
Oh, and everyone had mechanical keyboards, but people of culture still do.
Bet you didn’t hear the whine of CRT coils either.
Are you saying that because you had the computer next to the dot matrix printer? Because I could see that driving a person to think computers weren’t that loud.
Goldfish detected
You’re right. Just the fans and drives.
It was pretty loud