With 64 floppy drives, a lot of nonsense can be done. When computer scientists get bored, they create an amusing concert out of the relics.
The Empire Calls for the Clacker Appeal
The era of floppy drives (does anyone still remember disks? 1.4 MB of concentrated storage power!) should have been over for at least 15 years. The storage media are hardly useful today, after all, the data volume is so small that even a silly meme image would fill several disks. But what do you do with all the drives that have accumulated? Sure, you could throw them in the trash… or you could do it like YouTuber Pawel Zadrozniak, who has gathered no less than 64 of these old devices. As the usefulness of so many drives is quite limited, Zadrozniak has done something else with them.
All drives were connected together, along with 8 old hard drives, 2 scanners, and then the concert can begin!
Concert? Read that right, because Zadrozniak programmed it so that the drives play the Imperial March from Star Wars. You can see for yourself how the wild clacking and rumbling sounds here.
A clear case of “pretty cool idea” or rather “too much free time”? In any case, a pretty impressive achievement and a vivid proof that outdated technology still serves a purpose – albeit a very strange one.
Or as it aptly says in the comments from Gizmodo: “One day aliens will find this and be very puzzled.” Until that day comes, we enjoy the lovely sounds of the once annoying devices. How time flies.
