Re: Rescuing old 5.25" disks

["mdj" <mdj.mdj@gmail.com>]

Lyrical Nanoha wrote:

> I once put a crude "knocker" into my emulator, making a short chirp every
> time the head moved (and a different sound if it banged against the wall).
> Not exactly the right sound, but it did kind-of sound like the familiar
> hissing and scratching of a disk ][.  Booted a ProDOS disk, heard the
> familiar "BEEP-ss-ss-ss ss ss ss CLICK" almost exactly as I remembered it.

There's different degrees of the sound though, on the later UniDisk
ALPS mechanisms the sound is soft and quite pleasant - the Disk ]['s on
the other hand sound like they're literally scraping bits of the
surface of the disk :-)

I've always thought it would be cool to sample the noise and recreate
it in a emulator.