Originally shared by Ed S
The Floppotron plays music, using floppy disk drives and a scanner. How fitting - a song about nostalgia for obsolete technology. I'm not sure what would be more fitting - Kraftwerk's Computer Love perhaps, or for deeper retro maybe something by Bach. (They call that classical, don't they, not retro.)
But if you like this sort of thing, there's more, much more:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_BeGDkNRtA&list=RDs_BeGDkNRtA
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgUc6Dk5chELHtI2vq3zDIw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5k1giMq1rM&index=4&list=PL8-sNZvQPp_xN4P-BwbxNpf-OOvxu3xyr
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All this
"""“It is difficult to estimate the misery inflicted upon…multitudes of intellectual workers by the loss of their time, destroyed by organ-grinders and other similar nuisances,” he wrote. He tried anyway, calculating that over the previous 12 years “one-fourth of my working power has been destroyed by the nuisance against which I have protested.” In one 80-day period, he recorded 165 instances of disturbance. “In several of these cases my whole day’s work was destroyed, for they frequently occurred at times when I was giving instruction to my workmen relative to some of the most difficult parts of the Analytical Engine.”
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Hat tip to Maurici Carbo for the idea and the video!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJwEgxmE3Dw