When I saw the title, I recalled the sounds that the old Apple floppy drives would make: when you booted them up you could hear the chunka-chunka-chunka as the stepper motor pushed the head all the way to the outer track, and then a little scraping noise when (after the rest of the driver had been read off the outer track) the head moved to the center track to read the directory. And the farting noise it made before the console beeped and said “I/O ERROR”... those were the days... kids today, they don’t know what it was like....
Well, now I know how the Cocteau Twins made their sounds in the 80s!