Watch floppy drives play the themes from Pulp Fiction and Game Of Thrones

For nerds of a certain age, there’s something distinctly soothing about the sound of a floppy drive spinning into motion. In the days before CDs, the low bass rumbles and high-pitched whirrs were as comforting as the sound of a dialing modem—they were the sounds of things getting done, of programs preparing to run.
Despite the obsolescence of the hardware, some YouTubers just can’t seem to let their floppies go. Instead, they convert the old drives into makeshift musical instruments, wiring multiple devices together and programming them to spin at frequencies that produce musical notes. From there, they can input MIDI files into the controller and produce some amazingly faithful interpretations of popular songs.
The trend was brought to our attention by this video, recently posted by YouTube user Arganalth, of “Misirlou,” best known as the surf rock opening theme from Pulp Fiction.