Channeling the /dev/sda1 hard drive partition into a file. At last i've imported the raw file properly as the 8-bit unsigned linear pcm. This is 8bit mono 44100 hz windows wave. Lots of strange digital sounds. Quite useful for noise and experimental musicians. Interesting that if we just do cat /dev/sda1 > /dev/dsp we hear different sound more like modem 56k. I also made a record of it. See my files.
Power switch is pressed, computer starts up, plays a sound effect through the internal speaker, power switch is pressed again and the computer shuts down. Recorded with a zoom h4n, placed inside the computer.
Inserting a 5. 25-inch floppy disk into a micropolis 1053 i metafloppy floppy-disk drive. That's the sliding sound at the beginning. The second knock-knock type of sound is the press-down-and-hook drive latch being closed. The micropolis 1053 is a two-drives unit for s-100 bus early computers. This sound was recorded on the upper floppy-drive.
Shaking a lego set box. Then dropping legos and handling them. Recorded using at4033 mic in adobe audition 3 and then edited and cleaned up. Normalized to -. 1.