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                         Beware the Mac Chimes of Death

   Adam Engst

   Warning: Some people may find the sounds in the linked article
   alarming, or even traumatizing. Please prepare yourself emotionally by
   remembering that, even when Macs made these sounds, no actual hardware
   damage occurred. If you feel your heart racing and your stomach
   sinking, well, that's to be expected.

   I've never had occasion to write a trigger warning for a TidBITS
   article before, much less an ExtraBIT that points to someone else's
   article, but Steve Hackett's [1]Mac Chimes of Death piece on 512 Pixels
   deserves one for providing clips of the sounds that various classic Mac
   models played when they were unable to boot. I didn't think much about
   it when I played the first one, but by the end'and thanks particularly
   to the terrifying car crash sound made by the Power Mac 6100'my heart
   was palpitating. That said, I quite liked the ominous Performa chime of
   death, which I had never heard before. These clips may start you on a
   simple walk down memory lane, but watch out for the flashbacks.

   [2]Read original article

References

   1. https://512pixels.net/2021/04/mac-chimes-of-death/
   2. https://512pixels.net/2021/04/mac-chimes-of-death/

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