This brought a smile to my face. Being an old computer hack for the better part of 30 years, stuff like this always gets my juices flowing. Den of Geek spotted this video on YouTube featuring a couple of 3.5" floppy drives connected to a custom control board which, as best as I can guess, has been calibrated to move the heads at different speeds to produce..(cue drum roll)..musical notes! And what should one do with this ultimate power? Play the Empire theme from Star Wars, of course!
As an added bonus, show this to a young person of post-floppy experience and claim that these drives are actually the first sound devices used on PC. You can even say it's called a 'Game Blaster' (the Sound Blaster before it was the Sound Blaster). God knows it didn't sound much better. I should know, I owned one. It looked like this (below) and I was excited. (took me 5 hours to get it working on my PC XT though(...Irq7....Irq10....Irq5....KHAN!!!)
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