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Nowadays, tech moves so quickly that your current hardware can become obsolete rather quickly.\u00a0And floppy drives died out even before we got anywhere close to the modern pace.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But YouTube user\u00a0Pawe\u0142 Zadro\u017cniak<\/a>\u00a0has continued the tradition of keeping them alive through music in a grandiose way. Using 64 floppy drives, eight hard disks and some other hardware from the 20th century, he invented a symphony machine which he’s named “The Floppotron.”<\/p>\n

This first run of the Floppotron plays the Star Wars opening crawl and the Imperial March, but\u00a0Zadro\u017cniak has also posted videos of “Smells Like Teen Spirit”<\/a> and the Hawaii Five-0 theme<\/a>.<\/span> Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Nowadays, tech moves so quickly that your current hardware can become obsolete rather quickly.\u00a0And floppy drives died out even before we got anywhere close to the modern pace.\u00a0 But YouTube user\u00a0Pawe\u0142 Zadro\u017cniak\u00a0has continued the tradition of keeping them alive through … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}