Yes, that was the sound. First the fan whirring, then the BIOS beep, then the HD cracks with odd pauses. But if I recall correctly, once Windows 95 was there, it was there. Everything was available. With Win 11, dock icons take a minute to show up, apps won’t start yet because the system is still loading in the background. It pretends to be attentive, but is still busy.

Impressive. Would love to have a .gif of that.

Hi, what a great site! I submitted my first story on HN yesterday, it got drowned with 0 votes ;). Later on I discovered this page, I think it fits much better here, so here it goes: Rescue on Fractalus was one of my favorite games on my Atari 800XL (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rescue_on_Fractalus!).

Here is a nice and completely free remake for Windows, Macs and Linux. There is even a VR version (Windows only)! I found this a few months ago and play it every once in a while - hope you enjoy it as well!