[HN Gopher] Mac Chimes of Death ___________________________________________________________________ Mac Chimes of Death Author : zdw Score : 73 points Date : 2021-04-15 20:36 UTC (2 hours ago) (HTM) web link (512pixels.net) (TXT) w3m dump (512pixels.net) | reid wrote: | The Mac LC chime brings back memories from dumpster diving for | discarded PowerBook Duos and DuoDocks in the late 90s. | cosmotic wrote: | This list is missing many these with the second part: | https://youtu.be/n23dp8caq9A?t=66 | luxuryballs wrote: | love these posts, like those EVGA/VGA articles, reminds me of how | cheesy, fun, and raw early personal computing was, flying | toasters, GORILLA.BAS, having mom yell "sorry" from upstairs | indicating in advance that you were about to be booted from your | online game because she picked up the phone, getting a copy of | Unreal with your AGP Voodoo card, what a fun era that was | severak_cz wrote: | I like, how every one is different. | | - Maxintosh II (and LC) sounds like train departure announcement | - Quadra AV sounds like beginning of some 90s jugnle track - car | crash sounds like a car crash in DOS game - "Some Random | Performas" is bad guy coming to the scene in B-movie - this is my | favourite - PCI based macs is plain boring sound | jsrcout wrote: | Brings back some memories. On a similar note, does anyone | remember the "earthquake screen" on the early Macs? | sillysaurusx wrote: | After many decades, you can finally turn off the startup chime. | It's in Sound options -> play sound on startup. Was recently | delighted to discover that. | | Now, if only I could turn _on_ the crash chimes... | Someone wrote: | _"for years, the Mac also came with a death sound, that would | play when the machine crashed."_ | | I don't think that's correct. Those sounds played when the power | on self test failed, not when the machine crashed (if the machine | gets as far as playing that sound, it won't crash, but very | likely will come to an ordinary halt) | | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_startup: _"The classic | Macintosh startup sequence includes hardware tests which may | trigger the startup chime, Happy Mac, Sad Mac, and Chimes of | Death."_ | chmaynard wrote: | The Quadra AV death chime is outstanding. It will make a nice | addition to my ringtones collection. | fnord77 wrote: | imagine hearing one of those clown tunes just as you lost hours | of work. I'd be livid. | wu_187 wrote: | I forget which mac's we had in high school, but ours would always | crash in CAD class with a loud "quack". They crashed so much we | would all mock the sound throughout class. | gamache wrote: | I supported Macs in the mid-90s, so I heard a lot of chimes. IIRC | the funky chord before the rest of the chime (you can hear part | of one at the beginning of the IIcx example) carried actual | diagnostic meaning. The one here, again IIRC (it's been a while) | means "I have no RAM". | amacbride wrote: | I had a 6100 and so I can confirm how startling the car crash | sound was! ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-04-15 23:00 UTC)