I remember. My brain still sometimes interprets non-noisy computers as “broken” as that’s what any computer from 1980-2000 or so would’ve been. Modems screeching, hard drives yammering, chattering and seeking, CD-ROMs winding up like a UH-1 Huey, floppy drives grinding and groaning — a working computer to me is a noisy one.

Without question, I prefer the quietude of today’s machines. However, I grew up on computers that were a complete chaotic cacophony of sonic assaults so it will always be embedded somewhere in the back of my brain.