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Sep 3, 2026 10 min

Musical Floppy Drives - Computerphile

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Floppy disk drives make sweet music, well, tuneful noises anyway. You might have seen them on YouTube before, but how do they work? Now you can find out!Featuring Alex Pinkney from the University of Nottingham's Department of Computer Science. http://bit.ly/nottscomputerAlex originally saw these videos:http://www.youtube.com/user/Sammy1Amhttp://www.youtube.com/user/MrSolidSnake745The code, written by Sammy1Am is available online here:http://github.com/SammyIAm/Moppy/Follow Computerphile...http://www.facebook.com/computerphilehttps://twitter.com/computer_phileVideo by Sean Riley.Computerphile is a sister project to Brady Haran's Numberphile. See the full list of Brady's video projects at: http://periodicvideos.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/here-are-my-channels.html

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