What solution are you using for primary storage on your classic Macintosh?
@RonsCompVids I was using a bluescsi on my SE, but then I found a scsi miniscribe that makes all the happy chirps, and I can never bring myself to use a different drive in it.
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@indigoparadox @yestergearpc @RonsCompVids @BlueSCSI there’s this project based off an RP2040 that fully synthesizes the sounds of an old hard drive, with spinup, idle, and seek noises. In this video it’s emulating a pretty old drive with a stepper seek motor, I kinda love it: https://youtu.be/V0S9wBl7J3U
@polpo @indigoparadox @yestergearpc @RonsCompVids @BlueSCSI very much overkill but… hell yeah 🙂
@mmu_man @polpo @indigoparadox @yestergearpc @BlueSCSI I had Macs with dead drives, so a Blue SCSI didn't feel like overkill to me ;)
@RonsCompVids @polpo @indigoparadox @yestergearpc @BlueSCSI no I mean using an rPi to make noise 😄
@mmu_man @RonsCompVids @polpo @yestergearpc @BlueSCSI I mean, you might be able to do it with a lesser microcontroller, but the 2040 is widely available at the moment and many others are not, and it's very competitively priced. And something like I2S support is kinda limited to microcontrollers in a similar bracket anyway.
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@yestergearpc @RonsCompVids @BlueSCSI definitely needs to find a way to emulate that. FlashFloppy on a Gotek can be rigged with a beeper to simulate drive head noise and even with how synthetic it sounds, it's still a critical part of the experience that I mod into every Gotek I use!
It looks like there's this but it's not quite the same... https://tinkerdifferent.com/threads/smc-presents-beleths-drum-bluescsi-hdd-sound-emulator.1124/