Реймонд Чен интересно написал про странный звук из дисковода.

Wait, what’s a floppy disk drive?

For those youngsters out there, floppy disks are where we stored data before the invention of the USB earring. A single floppy disk could hold up to two seconds of CD-quality audio. This may not sound like a lot, but it was in fact pretty darned awesome, because CDs hadn’t been invented yet either.

Ну, главное читайте у него в блоге.