Awesome, the 2.0 decommissioning last week had scared. There's a spectacular variety of ways that music has been made in unconventional electromechanical ways--on the head motors of floppy drives 3.5", 5.25", and 8", on hard drive voice coils, scanner carriage motors, steppers wherever the're found in CNC devices, dot-matrix printheads, pulsed laser cutters, tesla coils, all the way back to radio interference generated by the IBM 1401 (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPk8MVEmiTI" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPk8MVEmiTI</a>).<p>The 1401 video I actually saw in an older related HN submission; lots of comments linking out to different examples in these threads. Here are a couple, someone might be able to aggregate a bunch more:<p>"Eye of the Tiger" played on a dot-matrix printer: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9286555" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9286555</a> (2015, 62 comments)<p>"Imperial March" on a single floppy drive: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2230849" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2230849</a> (2011, 27 comments)<p>Both the news site and original video of the second submission are lost to time, but luckily our saviour (of web content) Brewster Kahle has graced us with a copy in the Internet Archive.[1] The Wayback Machine also remembers a time when YouTube recommendations bore greater relevance--those on the archived video page from 2011[2] are entirely of videos of computer hardware music. Some might even still be up today.<p>[1] <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/0id_/wayback-fakeurl.archive.org/yt/X4SCSGRVAQE" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/0id_/wayback-fakeurl.archive.org...</a><p>[2] <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/0/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4SCSGRVAQE" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/0/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...</a><p>"Imperial March" was also what was played on the first incarnation of the Floppotron, with an impressively full sound from only two floppy drives (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHJOz_y9rZE" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHJOz_y9rZE</a>).<p>And perhaps related are those videos of the pleasingly periodic percussion of uncontrolled devices like (broken) washing machines, electronic typewriters, and air conditioners.