Re: What's that neat-o sound?

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From: Roy Smith
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 1989 12:39

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In <3990@csd4.csd.uwm.edu> hammen@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Robert J. Hammen) writes:
> >When you push the reset button, then the programmer's interrupt switch,
> >you get this scale played on the speaker (like the startup sound, but
> >ssslllllooowwwweeeeerrr).  What does it mean? (just curious...)
> 
> I assume that you are talking about the Mac II here - that is one of the
> diagnostic sounds on the machine.

	I had a similar thing happening on my Plus with Radius Full Page
Display and Accelerator.  Everytime I would boot it, instead of giving the
normal "boing", it would give a much longer "Bboooiiinnnngggggggggg",
lasting perhaps a full second.  Eventually it went away, after our hard
drive (Rodime) went out to lunch.  Some kind of virus?
-- 
Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute
455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016
{att,philabs,cmcl2,rutgers,hombre}!phri!roy -or- roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu
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From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
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Subject: Re: What's that neat-o sound?
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