Soothing Sounds of the IBM PC AT
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 ก.ย. 2024
- Booting up the IBM 5170 DOS computer system, installing Norton Utilities v4.5 from floppy disk, running a few of the included Symantec diagnostics, and defragging the Seagate ST-4038 hard disk drive.
Recorded in stereo, use headphones for full effect!
#ASMR #NoTalking #Soundscape
Next blerb: Clint reads us the IBM PC AT manual cover to cover, no commentary.
That would be great but I think it will remain a fantasy.
Yea.... That would be awesome. Added points if he stops for a LGR sandwich
I highly doubt that Clint would be able to keep himself from adding interesting tidbits as commentary.
At the speed Clint talks, such an effort would literally take days. Those manuals are huge!
"IBM PC/AT Technical Reference, by International Business Machines Corporation, as read by Clint Bassinger."
Open this video in several different tabs and start them all at different points and you'll feel like you're really back in an old college campus computer lab from the late-80s/early-90s.
I never had that, but I owned a couple Tandy computers growing up and this is completely frying my nostalgia on every level possible. Cold winter mornings in the city, loading Space Quest or King's Quest from disk. It's up there with the first dozen seconds from A Link to the Past or Super Metroid in terms of triggering all sorts of weird, old feelings I'd forgotten about.
Exactly my thoughts.
Thank you for the amazing suggestion
Exactly LOL!
Or my middle school PC lab in the early 00s before we get windows me machines.
People thought we'd have flying cars in 2020. Instead, we have live stream videos of ~30 year old computers.
This is not a complaint.
Released in 1984, it's 36 years old (a gree 2~3 generations in the computer world).
The only flying cars we seem to have now are the ones resulting from a police car chase where they launch from the Freeway into trees...
Technicaly we do have a car flying... in space (elon must have loved movie Heavy Metal bit too much), because rich people are wierdos.
That being said i do sourly miss proper FDD and just the whole PC speaker thing was something i did not realized i enjoyed back in the day (for me it was 90s).
Well, the world is a twisted place...
Considering how irresponsible most people are I'm very glad that a)there are no flying cars. b) getting a pilot license is slightly more complicated than getting a driver license. More people die on the roads than in all wars since WW2.
This is the stuff of my childhood: sitting in a dark, comfy, warm room in front of a CRT, machine crunching noisily in silence, snowy Christmas beyond the window, playing DOS games.
Just like Halliday in Ready Player One.
I miss those sounds. A dark rainy evening, just you and the PC. Doing some Qbasic, playing some games. Oh man!
You can still buy these old beasts online, some people even give them away for no more than the cost of shipping. Old as they are, they still do what they did when they were new, very well.
@@SweetBearCub I find that in the Netherlands this is more difficult. There are a lot of US listings, but shipping those is insanely expensive. In germany and mostly the UK the IBM pc and compatibles weren't as popular as all the other home computers so they dont have many either.
I want to get one with an arcade grade graphics card and a music synthesizer card for 16 bit gaming.
@@SweetBearCub ARE YOU SERIOUS!? HOW MUCH FOR IT? I MUST HAVE ONE
@@SweetBearCub not really lmao theyre 250 to 1000s
This is soothing for my cold, shriveled nerd soul.
As it defragments The IBM 5170 DOS is purging you of your troubles and anxieties.
You should record a full-height SCSI hard drive spinning up to speed on a wood desk. It's a sight and sound to behold. At first you can count the rotations as it picks up speed like an old prop plane. Womp-womp-womp-womp-womp-whir-whir-whir-whiirrrrr....
'full height' means full 'brick size' for the uninitiated ....
I had a bunch of those. Kept them going till they died, but I saved one of the server chassis they came in. It now sits on casters BESIDE my desk, and now houses my main i7 rig.
I happen to have one. Wish I had the sound recording equipment to captire it spinning up in all its glory.
@@SnigelSnigelson Wish I'd saved some of mine. Even broken, they're pretty impressive to show off.
At work in the late 1990's I had a RS/6000 model 550 (as I remember) with *dual* full-height SCSI drives. Sounded like a jet winding up for takeoff when you powered it on.
I always remember getting stoked when the stepper on the drive was going off in a fixed pattern and the files were just flying by, usually because they were tiny files but I just thought the drive was working really well. When things would hang for a while and then the seek zero would sound, my heart would always fall.
Navigating by sound in a computer world you barely understand.
This actually send me to sleep. My dad had one of these and I remember always feeling super relaxed and watching him work on it. Thank you for uploading this, it's gives me great comfort as my Dad passed away when I was 8, brings back some nice memories of just being in his presence again.
Awesome. I could listen to this all night. All those sounds are as important to us nostalgic retromen as the machines themselves.
Clint in a low seductive voice: Listen to the sound of my disk.
Lmao
low seductive duke voice! mmmmmm! you can copy to my hard drive any day baby!
I Misread That Easily Somehow
My Disk is Hard.
0:07
Queue THX theme
That was calming. Many memories of doing things on these computers from when I was a kid. Back then they were "loud and proud". Nowadays, people bug out if they hear a simple case fan that's one tenth as loud as the old IBM PCs.
I don't get why people got mad at loud pcs like mate that's the sound of PROGRESS
I have vivid memories of The library at my college with two rooms full of these loud ass things with several dot matrix and Daisy wheel printers going all the time. The racket was so much they put the writing labs on the third floor as far away from the main entrance as possible and you could still hear it in the main lobby. And the rooms were so hot they had to put in special air conditioning. BTW, yes I'm old.
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Alternate title: IBM PC AT ASMR
I watched it twice, the 2nd time with my eyes closed, it was quite nice lol
I was thinking EXACTLY the same thing :D
NO!
@@AMPProf It has asmr and no talking in the tags tho so this alt title DO work! :D
Man, that boot brought back nostalgic memories of a time I never thought I'd miss...
Don't get me wrong; having an SSD in my computer is great; I love it.
Something about the noises the computers made during boot operations though...
Beautiful.
Kinda makes me want a sound device in my case that just imitates these old PC sounds based on the actual system activity
When I worked at my dad's doctor's office, we had a Dell with this exact same case only a DELL badge instead of an IBM, and it was an i386, not an AT. Same hard disk sound, only sometimes it froze and you had to pick the case up and bang it back on the desk so it'd free up. It was much louder though. 8 hours in front of this thing running SCO UNIX, typing up patient info day in, day out. In the 80s, it sounded like the future! Today, it sounds dark, like you'd expect to hear this thing in some old haunted house. Still love it. Our floppy drives though didn't have the same 'darkness' sound of Clint's though. Heck, most didn't read disks at all any more.
Lets get this IBM PC AT out onto a tray... nice
Let's get this reference out onto a tray.
Nice!
I think LGR watches Steve too
Nice hiss
@Ryan Miller ikr lol
@@munat3413 Just when I thought he couldn't get any better, he does.
I couldn't stop smiling through the first 5 minutes. Watching in 4K on a 43" monitor and midrange Sennheiser headphones. It's magical. So much comfort in this, I can't describe it. Even though my childhood was more the 486 era, the IBM elicits the same warm and fuzzy feelings if not more. I realize all it is is childhood nostalgia, there is nothing objectively "nicer" about it than a modern PC. But I love it nevertheless, thank you for the immersive experience. I love this channel.
You are one of a kind LGR, I wish I had cool stuff like this to post on my channel.
You contribute so much to archiving old software and hardware.
This is why my old PCs need to have their floppy drives connected. For that sweet floppy boot noise.
If you have an LS-120 drive and an IDE controller card you can have floppy drive noises on a modern PC too.
@@tankermottind do LS120 drives make that boot up seek noise?
@@thegeforce6625 Yes, though it sounds different.
@@tankermottind right, neat!
@SteelRodent Did you know that there are these handy things called "expansion cards" that you can plug into your computer to give it capabilities it didn't have before? And that there are companies that make and sell expansion cards with legacy capabilities like IDE support, that will plug into modern PCIe slots on modern computers? And if you have to ask why someone would buy that, why are you watching a video about an IBM PC/AT? Go back to Fortnite.
That felt like 10 minutes and I've been sitting here for 30?!
Bro, I had the same thing, watched the live-stream and it definitely felt like 10 minutes instead of 30 .... weird stuff.
i've cheated ... i'm only look for SD (SpeedDisk) :)
That sweet rythmic sound you hear throughout is the sound of your electric bill going up. :) Even in the late 90's, I cut my bill almost in half just by shutting the system down when I wasn't using it. I remember sitting there and watching the defrag (speed disk) run. It was just kind of mesmerizing. From the directory listing, it looks like he has Duke Nuke'em and SimCity installed on there.
When it’s going through those directories, and it’s KEEN, MAVIS, BTECH, and SIMCITY, it hits me right in the feels, as the kids say.
This is great, I find era/machine specific video like this really hard to find for some reason (most people just upload themselves typing on Word with the mic an inch from the keyboard).
I've been hunting pretty hard for something like this for a 95/98 era PC for a very long time. I doubt you have the time to repeat this and do that, but it'd be neat :')
No AT-Class Machine will get close to running Win9x, minimum for Win9x is a 80386-Class machine with 3072k Extended Memory, and that would be painfully slow...
A Win9x-Era PC would be something like a Pentium/Pentium II/Pentium III-Class machine... or AMD K5/6... with 16 MB RAM minimum...
I have a W95 machine I've been thinking about uploading sounds for, but it doesn't POST and I feel like it'd be in poor taste if I didn't fix it first.
Makes me wish my 98 era pc still worked, I'd _love_ to upload defrag videos like this
Ahh I used to enjoy the sound of a defragmentation so much. I remember being disappointed when it was all done.
What's defragmentation ?
@@shubhamsaxena2419 TL;DR Degragmentation is the computer reorganising the data on the harddrive so that related bits of data are next to eachother
@@lexingtonbrython1897 i asked "defragmentation" Nd you are explaining "degragmentation" LOL
Anyone besides me just like watching computers defrag?
Totally mesmerizing.
Yes.
That's why we're here! 😁
Since the days Mr. Norton still had brown hair.
You are not alone
This makes me so nostalgic, my first PC was a 386SX 16MHz with a IBM EGA display.
Thanks for doing this! 💖
Asmr I never thought I needed, but enjoyed immensely
When I saw "ASMR" I was like "Oh, that's a funny joke." Then I realized I'm falling asleep to it as I type.
I'm sad when I see people mistaking ASMR for sleeping sounds :(
The initial ramp up cracked me up big time, and then that continuous drone! Things sure have changed.
Agreed, even with 9 fans in my personal rig, it's whisper quite most of the time (being large fans including a 200mm and 2 140mm fans among them likely part of the cause).
Kinda miss the old beige beast we had when I was little, the sounds it made when reading the hard disk or the internal speaker making various odd noises as it worked away.
I'm occasionally tempted to "dirty up" the noiseiness of my modern system just to enjoy that again, even if I'm just adding a tiny sound effect system to fake it
This PC has the best startup sound I've ever heard.
leaving this on in the background makes me feel like one of those guys who plays engine noises through a speaker while driving :D
Thanks that theory ford made it real.
box fan for sleeping: lv 10 noob
IBM fan for sleeping: lv 100 pro
this is how *BLERBS* work
My friend can't sleep in his room unless the computer is on.
Tbh I could sleep to the noise of one of these.
What's if it is a vintage metal box fan?
With the HD’s and other stepper motor noises!
*Sinks back into chair, nostalgia needle dangling from arm*
This is awesome, love the sound of these older hard drives and floppy drives.
God I forgot how loud these things were. Walking into a computer room at school with all of these types of computers running at the same time. Really brings back some memories. Thanks for sharing!
Old memories.... I remember, when I fire up this one the first time of my life, it took about a minute to locate all the ram....
I miss this old time...
My first PC, an IBM Personal Computer XT, took a couple just to count all 640KB RAM.
You have no idea how timely this is, this is the perfect background noise to help me study.
Those are the the sounds of my childhood. Like being back in the womb (?)
I never would have thought the sounds of my childhood computing days would actually help me as an adult when I need to work on something extensive.
Goddammit Clint, you just have to remind us that you have the money, and the space, and all the equipment to enjoy and record this amazing piece of technology... Screw you, man!!
In all seriousness, this is the best blerb so far. I've never heard and look with so much attention a 30 minute-long TH-cam video.
Thank you very much for this.
For me, the sound of the POST OK beep, the fans starting and the HDD spooling and actuating, and 3.5" floppies buzzing is nostalgic
There's a specific sequence of boot sounds from an old Tandon my parents had that always makes me nostalgic. Sounded a lot like this boot sequence, actually.
I watched this so many times that I desperately need a part 2 or something similar. Please Clint.
these sounds fill my heart with warmth
oh my goodness you read my mind LGR, I was just thinking about how awesome computer sounds ASMR would be as I was reminiscing about my old PowerMac G3 with matching CRT.
I think the computers make good sounds
I managed to find a set like that on craigstlist from a professor and his wife who had it since new and had all the boxes and documentation and everything. One of my favourite computers I own and the matching monitor (with it's box too!) and everything makes it perfect
I remember windows xp it was fun and windows 7 oh men i enjoyed that one. 8 what 8 i see 10. I do like 10 a little it only os that will make shure your old computer is still working meanwhile Microsoft is shutting windows os lay out sorry.
Thank you so much for doing this. There aren't many unedited "sounds of" videos available and this really scratches an itch for me.
it is jarring how things moved on, that pc makes so much sound, while my main rig , i think it has 8 fans and 5 hard drives and u can barely hear a peep out of it.....but man, i miss those old sounds.....i used to sleep with that sound and the black screen of dos with the prompt being set to green, it was so soothing.
That was a trip (a good one!). I haven't seen Norton Utilities for 25 years. I realised when watching it that I didn't know how colourful the Speed Disk is because I had a monochrome monitor on an XT with the NECV20. Thanks for the memories and the great sounds. Cheers.
I don't know if you intended this to be ASMR, but this is a top tier ASMR video 🤤
Miss these sounds, I fell asleep many nights to this in the background when I was a kid.
and people wonder why i laugh at complaints about a modern PC being loud
Seriously. This sounds like an interior to a plane while cargo is being loaded underneath lol.
There's annoying loud, and then there is soothing loud.
This is the latter for sure
There's annoying loud, and then there is soothing loud.
This is the latter for sure
I kinda miss when computers used to sound like spaceships taking off when they started up. This is legit soothing, and it's a great background for writing. Makes me feel like I'm a kid hanging out with my dad at work, sitting outside the server room or curled up under his desk while he prepares for Y2K. Thanks :)
“Lo-Fi PC Sounds to Chill To”
100% forgot I had this video playing on my phone and started getting worried about the noises "my laptop" was making. Fantastic
Brings back so many memories :)
Wow this brings back so many memories. The AT was my first ever PC in 1990, paired with a period dot matrix printer.
An absolute beast of a machine!
Thank you for sharing.
those hard disk/floppy drive sounds on boot always make my day tbh
"Oh just get to Speed Disk already, you tease!"
Can't believe I just said that.
I almost faint in happines when hearing this sound, thank you for bring back my memory
I remember when my compy would be overwhelmed, the painful grinding sounds of old HDs.
Oh... These sounds are awesome! 😍 And this relaxing soud of clicking buttons on keyboard...
Zoomer: "Man, the new PC my parents bought me sounds like a jet engine!"
Me, 36 years old: "Oh, you sweet, blissfully ignorant summer child..."
@@PQCraft i saw that meme too!
tbf im a zoomer and i remember my dell inspiron laptop from 2007 sounding like a hair dryer, old computers have a more mesmerizing whirr instead.
The soothing sound of defrag and the clunk of the hard drive, those were the days! God i miss the 90's, things were clunky and noisy and heavy. What fun!
I was sleeping with my buds in - woke up to this, asked myself "Is that TH-cam's mainframe room?" Saw the video, left it playing, fell back to sleep! 👍🙂
That computer looks like it's in immaculate condition & yes, very soothing + nostalgic too :)
This sounds reminds me of mornings of the early 90s
LGR should make an extended version of this for 8 hours for sleep therapy. Listening to this brings peace to my soul in a very chaotic world.
Well, I've been having problems sleeping lately, so some ambient noise might help...
Back when the 286 was king, my PC sat on my bedroom's hardwood floor next to my desk tower-style. It ran 24/7; occasionally for a variety of reasons it would reboot while I was asleep, or less frequently shut down entirely. This always woke me up - if my box wasn't running and clunking away, I could not sleep.
On booting, my twin RLL drives spinning up and seeking would echo down through the flooring and could be heard throughout the house...
Have you considered removing the face hugger?
If the goal is to sleep permanently, that might be worth trying.
My childhood nostalgia thanks you. 👍
I miss these sounds. I need to make a new old pc for myself
Yes please
Clint, you should literally just do a compilation of computers turning on and off like this. It would be perfection.
The fact that it takes like 15 seconds to boot up and wind down, that's nice
I just watched a hard drive defrag (among other things, probably)… well, I've also watched an hour-long video on installing office off floppies, so take that how you will.
But did you watch 43 minutes of a hot dog print out of a dot-matrix printer?
Somebody watches AkBKukU because I've seen that whole thing too
MichaelMJD!
A person of taste
@@AerinRavage oh god i need that link i cant find that video
If you did a montage of all (ok maybe just a representative selection) of your old PCs booting up, loading DOS/windows etc., it would be absolutely amazing. All the clicks and beeps and HD spinning sounds are the best kind of ASMR.
Also, gosh that computer is loud! wow. My family got our first PC in the early 90s and I don't remember being it anywhere near that loud, I guess they had quieter fans by then.
I didn't know I needed LGR BLERB ASMR today, but I guess I did. Thank you.
I wish my current desktop sounded like this. My first 386 sounded a lot like this.
Also, I would love a five minute loop of an MFM drive spinning implanted directly into my brain, thanks.
That computer running sounds like the cabin noise in an airplane flying.
I was waiting for drinks to be served.
Ahhh. The old IBM "confidence tone". Nothing can go wrong, you are in a safe place.
The drive's movements sound a lot quicker than the 20MB one in my PC XT.
Finally an ASMR video worth listening to.
19:00 This is actually the first time seeing the defrag program in color. My dads oldest comp had this but only black and orange/yellow colors
While I grew up in the early 2000s, I’ve always loved the sound of old hard drives spinning. There’s something so calming about it.
I swear my quick read at the title was 'Soothing Sounds of the IBM PC to study/chill AT'(i know it should be with, but wth)
i have been helping my grandad to eraze and clean and prepair his 1987 amstrad 1640 to be sold ( we are in the uk) and i love old computers and have realy enjoyed the noises this computer makes and learning how to use dos for the first time, it is amazing, today i formated about 30 floppy disks and the noises where amazing.
it reminds me of the a/c fans outside my office. memories
Now this is the kind of quality content I've subscribed for.
when i was at school in 1994 they had comupters like these always loved the sound startup back then i was given 1MB if that for my work file to save word documents
my school they gave everyone a floppy disk, our network was all mac stuff, and mac disks didn't work in the ibm machines...
I was born in the 2000's so I didn't grow up with these, but somehow this still feels oddly nostalgic and soothing.
Wow. This reminds me of my Atari PC3. The starting harddrive sound (I think it was a seagate too) was nice! It's a shame that I don't have it anymore!
Thank you for that, I could probably sleep tonight with the norton speed disk in my headphones!
That Speed Disk Norton Utility was added to MS-DOS base util, "DOS SCANDISK" . This exist on modern MS-Windows, but it's not so powerful.
My first computer was a no-name XT clone with a 10 meg hard drive, 2 5 1/4" floppy drives, 640k RAM, and a 12" amber display monitor. I was dirt poor, but my boss was retiring and knew I loved working with the few PCs we had in the office, so when he retired he sold to me his own PC for one dollar, and threw in the Epson FX-80 dot-matrix printer. That was the start of it all...
Sounds very like my 5160 XT. Gotta love them ancient MFM Seagate's.
Solid states don't do it for me.
What you loose with a silent SSD, you gain it back in speed.
I used to have two Quantum Fireball HDDs in my home server. Not an MFM drive but still noisy AF. They were the noisiest part of my setup and I liked it. After one of them died, I bought a new HDD which made the remaining one obsolete in terms of storage space (old drive 6 GB, new drive 1 TB).
Now my home server (HP dc5850) is more silent than my laptop (Lenovo Y520). I once turned up its idle fan speed in BIOS but I live with my parents who didn't like that, so I had to revert it to the factory default speed.
This makes me nostalgic for my middle school computer club. Our lab was always abuzz and aclatter with all these sounds. Modern computers just make fan sounds.
Sounds like my tinnitus
WHAT? 😂
Mine's just a high pitched noise.
@@user-pi5xz5je4y ... download this, you'll thank me later...
play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.boedec.hoel.frequencygenerator
PS, use noise cancelling headphones!!!
The nostalgia. Playing Hard Hat Mack on this machine. 5170 started my IT journey.
Oh god, LGR is getting cabin fever!!
there's a presence here I'll never get with a contemporary computer, this IBM has an almost tactile feedback for all the work it's doing. You can hear the hard drive spin up and the screen click as it powers on, the hard drive clicks as the light flashes whenever it tracks, and the floppy drives are a potent reminder about just what you are loading.
It almost covers the sound of my dying AIO pump... almost
That ST-4038 mechanics sound so brutal. Back when mechanical hard drives sound like jet engines when powered up, it's a sound that I miss these days. I get it newer machines are designed to be whisper quiet but sometimes you find yourself waiting to hear for that hard drive activity instictively.