Playing "music" on old computer hardware!

[gunug]

I kind of like this but then I'm really not very musical:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-X-p0C0Uas

[Xairbusdriver]

Some one has waaaay too much free time! And a much smaller wallet than he could! Not sure about the longevity of those "bare" drives, either. Even if they have plexiglass lids...

[gunug]

But this is all old, old, stuff; I've got some of the same in the basement; here's another, more practical use
of old hardware:

QUOTE

We need to learn a lesson about needless consumerism from this auto repair shop in Gdansk, Poland. Because it still uses a Commodore 64 to run its operations. Yes, the same Commodore 64 released 34 years ago that clocked in at 1 MHz and had 64 kilobytes of RAM. It came out in 1982, was discontinued in 1994, but it’s still used to run a freaking company in 2016. That’s awesome.

http://sploid.gizmodo.com/this-old-ass-com...n-an-1787196319

I wonder what people are using old Mac's and Apple computers for?

[Highmac]

Talking of old technology... visiting my brother recently, I spotted a 14in portable analogue TV.

"Why have you still got that?"
"It's the only screen that works with my Oric."

I don't know which model he has but Wikipedia about Orics tells us that its makers went into receivership (went bust) "for the second and final time" in December 1987.

When I was trying to find a home for my old Atari ST, my offer to him got the response: "I've been told I have more than enough old computers"

[gunug]

QUOTE

"I've been told I have more than enough old computers"

Seems like that something I've heard recently at home!