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Listen to a 30 year-old computer start up

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Mar 04, 2025
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My first PC, a Pentium, was just a little more modern than the model in the video embedded below. Youngsters might be charmed/horrified to realize what things were like, back then. The grinding noise is the hard drive; the beige color of the case was chosen because the plastics of the era, like the users' teeth, actually wanted to be that color.

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