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Article #40034Re: Shinny new IIcx that sings!
From: Danny Schwendener
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 1989 17:57
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 1989 17:57
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>> 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 does this also. It follows that the Mac IIx and IIcx should too,
>probably the SE/30 as well. I think its pretty neat but perplexing if you
>don't know what's going on. Apple really should distribute a program that
>demonstartes the different "error" tunes so that a user knows that the tunes
>mean something's wrong and doesn't think their Mac is just unusually happy to
>see tham that day.
We have such a program from apple. it's actually made for dealers and
tech reps. Don't know if it's available outside the rep world. Ask
macdts.
-- Danny
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