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Article #39886Re: Shinny new IIcx that sings!
From: Jeff Barr
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 1989 16:08
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 1989 16:08
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In article <1424@wasatch.UUCP>, t-jacobs@wasatch.UUCP (Tony Jacobs) writes: > > Well my Cobra showed up. I had a unique experience with it while trying to > put it together and crank it up. After pluggin all the pieces together and > finally pressing the ignition key, instead of getting the nice chime sound > and a smiling mac, I got this little musical tune (a whole little verse of ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > notes in very nice sounding tone) and no screen at all! Not even a frowning ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > mac. It turned out that one of the Ram simms I had added wasn't snaped in all > the way. I guess it has it own way of saying "hey, somethings wrong!" The Mac II did this for a bad memory configuration. Too bad it didn't play "Taps" -- If you have never turned one on normally, you won't know that this little jingle means "you memory is screwed up". Jeff > -- > Tony Jacobs * Center for Engineering Design * U of U * t-jacobs@ced.utah.edu /\ Jeff Barr \ / Visix Software, Inc. /\ 800-832-8668 \ / / \ uunet!visix!jeff \ / 1525 Wilson Blvd. / \ 703-841-5858 \ / / \ \/ Arlington, VA 22209 / \ \/ "A MIMD is a terrible thing to waste."
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!lll-winken!uunet!visix!jeff From: jeff@visix.UUCP (Jeff Barr) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Shinny new IIcx that sings! Summary: Mac II did it too Message-ID: <189@visix.UUCP> Date: 25 Mar 89 16:08:14 GMT References: <1424@wasatch.UUCP> Organization: Visix Software, Arlington, Virginia Lines: 24