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Imperial March played on floppy drives

David Pescovitz at 9:47 am Mon, Oct 3, 2011

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[video link] The Star Wars "Imperial March" played on two modded floppy drives. (Thanks, Jim Leftwich!)

David Pescovitz is Boing Boing's co-editor/managing partner. He's also a research director at Institute for the Future. On Instagram, he's @pesco.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/sweinberg Steve Weinberg

    Interesting how well the Imperial March works for unconventional music.  Floppy drives, Arc Attack, etc.

    • cymk

      I imagine other music would work just as well, but how many Celine Dion fans out there are also computer geeks?

  • CH

    This guy needs more disk drives!!! Now!!!

    Another great one (I think this one was also featured on Boing Boing): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmoDLyiQYKw

  • http://profiles.google.com/greeneggsandsamuel Sam Archer

    I’ve got a four-drive setup myself, controlled by an Arduino.  Going to pick up a better quality microphone soon and record some more songs.

  • doggo

    I sense a ringtone…

  • xzzy

    That’s a pretty neat tone.. someone needs to figure out how to synthesize it so I can dork around with it in garage band.

  • http://twitter.com/Listener43 Listener43

    Empirical proof that obsolete media are never obsolete.

  • adwkiwi

    That is way more impressive than I thought it was going to be

  • Kernit the Font

    Would this be Darthstep?

  • http://www.epinardscaramel.com TokenFrenchDude

    What’s a floppy drive ?

  • Donald Petersen

    Wow.  It sounds like Williams actually composed the piece on those drives!

  • crummett

    The only way this could better is if they were made of Legos.

  • woodly

    That video was filled with more nerd than anything in this universe.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_OAUXAA362EXWLYVMPJOKLFB5JQ Incipient Madness

    “I got two disk drives and a microphone…”

  • noah django

    that’s nothin!  i rigged my toilet to play the baby elephant walk!

  • Ben Derunit

    John Williams’s inspiration for the Imperial March:

    http://vimeo.com/22420613

  • HahTse

    Awesome!