Re: Back in the days
I remember something similar, but far more beautiful: a friend had loaded a dubious CD ROM into a failing CD drive, it spun up, and kept spinning up. When the hum became a whistle, said friend hit the eject button. The tray opened, disk still spinning; the disk proceeded to lift off and attempt to fly across the room, only to exceed the tensile strength of the medium mid-air.
With the silveryness and shiny, it did look a bit like a firework going off.