They beeped they booped they clinked they clonked. It felt like real serious machinery doing serious things that modern computing doesn't really elicit in me.
Those old defrag softwares that would show sectors being reallocated I used to love watching as a kid. My dad would explain to me how it worked under the hood while I watched.
Brain terminally stuck in the era of winamp
this is my version of people going "cars used to be more fun"