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Article #40059Re: Shinny new IIcx that sings!
From: mx!cbcscavc
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 1989 07:19
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 1989 07:19
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In article <19331@srcsip.UUCP> mnkonar@gorby.UUCP (Murat N. Konar) writes:
+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 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.
+
I have just such a program called "diagnostic sound sampler".
It does not have any credits or an "about" box, so I don't know who
wrote it or what its status (I think its freeware). If there is enough
interest, I will forward it to the moderator of comp.binaries.mac.
Aviram Carmi ...{uunet,ihnp4,sdcrdcf,hplabs,psivax,ttidca}!csun!mx!cbcscavc
or cbcscavc@mx.csun.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sm.unisys.com!csun!mx!cbcscavc From: mx!cbcscavc@csun.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Shinny new IIcx that sings! Summary: I have a diagnostic sound sampler program Keywords: Diagnostic Sound Sampler Program Message-ID: <2032@csun.edu> Date: 26 Mar 89 07:19:54 GMT References: <1424@wasatch.UUCP> <19331@srcsip.UUCP> Sender: news@csun.edu Organization: CSU, Northridge School of Engineering & Computer Science Lines: 27