Sound familiar ?

[Rybags]

Just watching an old episode of "The Six Million Dollar Man" on TV.

 

Original air date was 1st November, 1974. I tend to think they just used dubbed in sound effects, but it almost matches a "quiet I/O" to an Atari disk drive.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omujgj_o99I

[Heaven/TQA]

cool... and the disc drive or terminal looks like an 810 from the back.

[flashjazzcat]

Heh... "Give us time Barney, I know we can get this IDE driver working..."

[jmetal88]

Hmm, looks like the ICP TermiCette was a real storage product, but I can't find any info about it beyond a couple of Google hits, one mentioning a users manual, and one mentioning it being used to load a program for something related to cigarette smoke and baboons.

[Gunstar]

It probably sounds similiar to Atari I/O becuase the Atari drive mechanisms of the 810 were outsourced to other drive manufacturers (like Taxan) who existed before Atari, and naturally their drives and I/O sound similiar. The tech was in it's infancy, so few different ways existed in transfer protocols, tape, disk, other, it all sounds the same.

Edited October 6, 2011 by Gunstar