[Info-vax] DS10L releases magic noise

[Bob Koehler]

In article <jmo2pq$g32$1 at dont-email.me>, David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:
> Preparing my entry for this year's Carl Lydick award ....
> 
> Bob Koehler wrote:
>>    Turned on the DS10L and it released the magic noise.
> 
> What noise might that be?
> 

   Yeh, OK, two load pops, after which everything appears to be dark
   and quite from the outside of the case.

[...]
> 
> If it was the disk heads crashing, a sound I'm familiar with, then a replacement disk 
> might be found.  I think I've still seen them with the IDE interface.

   Doesn't seem to have any power, I don't think it ever got far enough
   to spin up disks.