Bo-Hardware-ian Rhapsody

If you're going to make music out of old hardware, there's rarely a better tune to go for than Queen's Magnum opus.

Re-creating the head bangers' favorite from Wayne's World was not an easy task, and the harmony does slip at the end a little, but it's still a true work of art.

The main band is provided by HP ScanJet 3C taking over the ripped shirt of Freddie Mercury, the Texas Instrument TI-99/4a replacing Brian May, bass provided by a 8 inch floppy disk instead of Jon Deacon, and a 3.5 inch disk drive providing Roger Taylor's percussion. Incidental organ and piano are the remit of an Anatri 800XL.

Canadian YouTuber bd594 has also written Star Wars for the disk drives as well as producing a gingerbread borg?!?

While watching this one though, I almost worked some lyrics out, Weird Al style, does anyone care to finish them?

"Scanner, completed scan.
Got a disk drive out on drums,
Anatri organ, here it comes,
Scanner, Anatri just begun,
And now TI will boot and start to play..."

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Aha that's genius, like the Top Gear song using engines.

Root, you're the second thing that made my day. (An A+ note is pretty satisfying).

I'm not sure what to say about this...except for wow. It wouldn't be recognizable at the beginning if I wasn't listening for it. Entertaining...in an odd way.

Haha, that was frikkin awesome! Bets song ever, combined with computers = WIN

I have never seen the movie myself, but I've heard the song. Nice wrok, I have to say, and it certainly is a unique platform.

This is awesome, though very odd.

Optimus Prime:
Aha that's genius, like the Top Gear song using engines.

Minus the TopGear theme tune done with engines was a terrid failure...
This... This is genius and works!!!

i saw this about 6-7 hours ago :P

'tis awesome

dogstile:
i saw this about 6-7 hours ago :P

'tis awesome

I saw it nearly 14 hours ago, but I have to work as well ;)

No no no! The 3.5 inch disk drive was off beat and the HP ScanJet 3C was as flat as a pancake! We cannot keep doing this people, let's take it from the top!

In all seriousness, this is awesome-sauce.

The_root_of_all_evil:

dogstile:
i saw this about 6-7 hours ago :P

'tis awesome

I saw it nearly 14 hours ago, but I have to work as well ;)

nah, i'm BRITISH! :P

i have a time advantage :P

dogstile:

nah, i'm BRITISH! :P

i have a time advantage :P

Dear chap, I'm as English as Chicken Tikka. ;)

The_root_of_all_evil:

dogstile:

nah, i'm BRITISH! :P

i have a time advantage :P

Dear chap, I'm as English as Chicken Tikka. ;)

alas! a neighbor! i salute ye, good sir!

Dude... That blew my mind.... It was amazing.

Do we have power, are cables connected?
Affirmative, online, but orders reje-ected.
Unplug it all, then plug it all back iiiiiiiiiiin.
This is old hardware, please just be patient.
Because it was cheep, turn it off, turn it on, no - that's off.
Here we go it's starting, hope we don't end up with blue screen...
...blue screen.

The_root_of_all_evil:

"Scanner, completed scan.
Got a disk drive out on drums,
Anatri organ, here it comes,
Scanner, Anatri just begun,
And now TI will boot and start to play..."

Scanner, oo-oo-oo-oooo,

any contributions, people?

The_root_of_all_evil:

"Scanner, completed scan.
Got a disk drive out on drums,
Anatri organ, here it comes,
Scanner, Anatri just begun,
And now TI will boot and start to play..."

Scanner, oo-oo-oo-oooo,

jh322:
Do we have power, are cables connected?
Affirmative, online, but orders reje-ected.
Unplug it all, then plug it all back iiiiiiiiiiin.
This is old hardware, please just be patient.
Because it was cheep, turn it off, turn it on, no - that's off.
Here we go it's starting, hope we don't end up with blue screen...
...blue screen.

Nice :)