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by joosters 902 days ago
Ah, such rose-tinted glasses!

My first PC - much like the one pictured in the story, had a fan that was spinning 100% of the time, because most PCs then were too primitive to have a temperature sensor that controlled fan speed. And you couldn't hear the hard drive because the fan was so noisy. So much for these performance indicators!

The only thing audible above the loud PC was when the hard drive died, and spent all its time making nasty mechanical clicking sounds. But since the computer had locked up by that point, it wasn't much of a help!