Sound / grind of a 5.25" Apple II floppy drive at work

[SkinnyKitchen]

i remember that! My Apple Circle had that..... anybody ever use one of those extreme early 80s Apples where you couldn't touch the screen cause it was clothlike? fucking ancient shit!

[desiv1]

Man, makes me want to play Canonball Blitz! :-)

[leeson44]

Comedy!!! Iremeber this ...

[hdofu]

This takes me back

[homer4556]

sound like a saw and a old dos game

[JPMistheBestBeatle]

The end is hilarious, never thought anything could make a sound like that

[hdofu]

@JPMistheBestBeatle The end actually isn't the disk, thats coming from the speakers.

[DragonUltraMaster]

Is that thing a radio or it is broken? Yeah I know, it's working xD

Gotta love it neither way :D

[anonimoculto]

Ei... É exatamente isto. Tenho estes drivers aqui até hoje. Bons tempos!

Hei. It's exactly like this. I have these drivers here yet nowadays. Good times!

Hei. Es ist genau wie dieser. Ich habe diese Treiber hier noch heute. Good times!

[RClaffieJr]

I was hoping for that gawd-awful sound the drive made when it happened upon a sector it couldn't read.

[Kooplamedvel]

Better than the dial up noise.

[Anthony96922]

what is the sound in the end??

[miviezgeneration]

@Anthony96922 that's the introduction program, it teaches you how to use the computer

[andrewboynton11]

hey can you please message me. i have a disk II and i need help loading the external floppy drive. thanks

[runforit420]

I remember the Apple IIc: An Introduction Disk so well. And the ProDOS "blip" sound when the copyright screen appeared.

[TNG128MB]

whats the bleeping at the end?

[harataikiphilosopher]

i used my uncles apple IIe back in the mid 90s, he had kept it after upgrading many years before, every time i went to his house i used to jump on it, recently got my own off Ebay with a bunch of floppy disks and a 5.25 drive :) recorded the sound and have it as my SMS tone annoys the crap outta folk but I love it.

[Glopdemon]

The formatting/can't read sound was awful. There's a whole generation of people in their late 20's/early 30's still traumatized by that sound.

[ratman396]

@Glopdemon you are not kidding. I'm 33 and cut my teeth on Apples. I STILL remember that sound and it would scare me shitless. It took me years to be able to format a disk on my own because of that sound. I also knew which programs would cause that sound when ran and would avoid them like the plague.

[Glopdemon]

@ratman396 as I recall, the sound was a little worse on IIc's than on IIe's. Maybe it was just mine that was particularly bad.

[ratman396]

@Glopdemon It was not a IIe/IIc thing. The volume depended on the type of disk drive you had. The Disk II's (like in this vid) were MUCH QUIETER during recalibration than the DuoDisk type IIe and IIc drives

[ratman396]

@Glopdemon Here is some info from Wikipedia on the CAUSE of that dreaded sound:

"Another Wozniak optimization allowed him to omit Shugart's Track-0 sensor. When the Operating System wants to go to track 0, the controller simply moves 40 times toward the next-lower-numbered track, relying on the mechanical stop to prevent it going any further down than track 0. This process, called "recalibration", made a loud buzzing (rapid mechanical chattering) sound that often frightened Apple novices."

[xyanide1986]

Hahaha what's with the ending tune there, is it telling you it's done copying?

[troshs]

@xyanide1986 actually its the virtual keyboard sliding down the screen

[cameraman4brainiac]

hippo??? as big as a hippo is probably right

[JayDashef]

@kc2jga yeah, I remember that sound, which I heard too often on my old Apple IIc. Would load just fine, then all of a sudden a very loud "BUZZZZZ" which sent me running out of the room! That's the only thing I hated about the Apple II line; I don't ever remember hearing that on any other computer of the time. Not IBM, not C64, Amiga, Atari computer line.

[zeldaparty8]

Oh I miss this sound. I need to go play with my Apple II again.

[kc2jga]

The sound it made when it had a hard time reading the disk still gives me nightmares.

[rickthedanger]

I'm sure we'll be doing the SAME thing for DVD drives in the future where physical drives are replaced by digital contents.

[rylan76]

Oh BOY that brings back memories!

[linuxuser432]

0:15 rithmic bootup

[GrapejuicePaperBuses]

Love the name. Hippo-3!

Lets advertise how big I am!!

[Macintoshplus1986]

cool sound lol XD

[theultimatedestroy80]

i had one of this with the computer but i didnt want it so i destroyed it :)

p.s this is not a hate comment

[ninamaya]

And those drives were FAST. I remember some games loading in a few seconds while on the C64 my friends had to wait many MINUTES until a game was loaded. Yes, from a floppy, not a cassette! But after loading, I admit that the C64 had better sound and graphics. But the floppy drive on the Apple II was superior.

[Rueffilicious]

i had a teacher in school tell me if you have any problems with the computer just hit "Enter."

[Rueffilicious]

i remember that very well...



[theultimatedestroy80]

@LOLZpersonok but you are trying to make stupidnes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! noob

[LOLZpersonok]

@theultimatedestroy80 ???

that didn't make sense...

[theultimatedestroy80]

@LOLZpersonok ???? what dosent make sence??? you say'd something stupid so you are stupid

[LOLZpersonok]

@theultimatedestroy80 I didn't say anything was stupid! Geez...look back at the frigging comments before you post and make sure that it is actually from the person you are responding to! I said it is trying to make music!

[theultimatedestroy80]

@LOLZpersonok my comment was for LOLZpersonok thats you............no it's not trying to make music it's trying to read

p.s your comment got flagged from someone probl becose he agreed with me ( i didnt flag it)

[LOLZpersonok]

@theultimatedestroy80 Wow your such a party pooper I was just joking around. Geez....

[theultimatedestroy80]

@LOLZpersonok i didnt find that funny atall :(

[LOLZpersonok]

@theultimatedestroy80 Then hang me for trying to be even remotely funny.

[theultimatedestroy80]

@LOLZpersonok ooowww well ok where sould i hang you?????????

[LOLZpersonok]

@theultimatedestroy80 Since your so smart why don't you choose

[theultimatedestroy80]

@LOLZpersonok  becose if i hang you anywhere the place will be fucked after doing that :D

[LOLZpersonok]

@theultimatedestroy80 ???

[theultimatedestroy80]

@LOLZpersonok !!!

[XtalQRP]

Nah, most sound like that. Mine does! A whole 100kb per side (BBC Micro).

Strange to think just how much you could actually do with so little. Programers were far more frugal with memory back then...

[thetickleninjas]

HIPPO-3 sticker does not lie! that thing is as fat as a hippo!

[poshko41]

It's a tossup between this and the sound of a dial-up modem for my all time favorite retro computer sounds.

[achavez78]

YESSSSSS!!!!!!!!!! FTW!

[pvx]

This sound takes me back to my grade school days, ahhh....

[jaksel]

Such a beautiful sound :-)

[NOWAdwaltz]

it has rhythem lol

[Elementzdj]

:-( very nice sound

[meatisdeliciouse]

Nostalgia, I want one so bad.

[lolfunnycp]

@meatisdeliciouse me 2

[PivotMasterD1]

Is that a Shugart drive?

[junker15]

@PivotMasterD1 Yes, the disk][ was a Shugart (the SA400, I believe).  Then Apple switched to ALPS for the Apple 5.25 drive.

[MixerVM]

sounds like a hack saw

[TNG128MB]

lol



[meatisdeliciouse]

Nostalgia NOSTALGIA.

[EPS5000]

The end sound is different, but the rest is the same for a Commadore64 5.25" floppies

[ZXRulezzz]

I worked with 5.25 disks but I don't remeber this sound, cuz all my 5.25 drives are almost silent as work :-D

[MrGoomba909]

mine does'nt sound exactly like yours... i think your motor is starting to go...

[16mmDJ]

crap! thats noisy.

[asgerms]

Cannonball Blitz?