Few people have heard of it, yet many consider John Blankenbaker's KENBAK-1 to be the first commercial personal computer.
Star Wars Imperial March on Dual Floppy Drives
By James Grahame
Floppy disks are almost extinct, which is not such a bad thing. They were noisy, slow and error prone -- an evil product of The Dark Side.
Pawel obviously agrees. He re-purposed two old 3.5" floppy drives as a demented duophonic musical instrument. Their head stepper motors are driven by an Arduino. While the result is definitely recognizable, it's not exactly what you'd call high fidelity.
Evil Floppy Drives [via Hack A Day]
