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A nostalgic, ear-first tour of the distinctive mechanical and electrical sounds that defined external hard drives and their enclosures in the 1980s and 1990s - from the heroic whir… more
A deep dive into how blockbuster space operas of the 1980s and 1990s invented a visual language of t… more
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