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

Anyone who's used 5 and a quarter inch floppy disks will remember this sound! I'm not sure if this is specific to Apple II floppy drives, or any others? This video was taken in 2009, on my still working 1984 Apple IIe!

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• floppy
• disk
• apple
• ii
• iie
• computing
• vintage
• 5.25

[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]

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

[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

[troshs]

@xyanide1986 actually its the virtual keyboard sliding down the screen

[DragonUltraMaster]

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

Gotta love it neither way :D

[miviezgeneration]

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