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May 6[edit]

I need some reliable sources about the history of computer startup sounds.[edit]

I'm trying to write an article about computer startup sounds. The draft can be found at: Draft:Startup sound. I need help finding some good sources about the history of startup sounds as well as writing the article itself. Could someone please help me with the article? Thanks! Félix An (talk) 06:53, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The thing that immediately springs to mind is Brian Eno's work on the startup sound used in Windows 95, which is discussed in his article with some sources you can peruse. Otherwise, it would likely make sense for you to investigate histories of places and people who were developing systems like Microsoft and Apple. Remsense诉 06:58, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oh dear! I thought of those ancient mainframes where when one switched them on various relays would click as the different bits got poweed up and all the fans would start running and eventually it could read cards or a paper tape and run a noisy lineprinter chunk chunk chunk chunk. But if you put vintage computers into Google it comes up with ones from the 90's! I was already on my third home computer by then! NadVolum (talk) 18:19, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

pdf and pictures[edit]

If there is a PDF novel written in a non-English language. which are mostly scanned books of old novels that have no online version. Then is there any software or online website that can lift the written text from PDF scans and write those lines? They are not original pdf files that can be edited by a pdf editor but scanned picture books by scan machine and then uploaded in Asian languages. 2409:40E1:C9:E2A:CCC2:B6C:CF71:29B3 (talk) 09:22, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, it is very possible to use optical character recognition for non-Latin scripts. Specifically, Asian languages are often well-supported, including Chinese characters written both horizontally and vertically. I use a complicated command line script, but I will try looking for an easy web tool to do it. But I wanted to make it clear it's possible. Remsense诉 09:29, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]