[HN Gopher] Mac Chimes of Death
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       Mac Chimes of Death
        
       Author : zdw
       Score  : 73 points
       Date   : 2021-04-15 20:36 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | reid wrote:
       | The Mac LC chime brings back memories from dumpster diving for
       | discarded PowerBook Duos and DuoDocks in the late 90s.
        
       | cosmotic wrote:
       | This list is missing many these with the second part:
       | https://youtu.be/n23dp8caq9A?t=66
        
       | luxuryballs wrote:
       | love these posts, like those EVGA/VGA articles, reminds me of how
       | cheesy, fun, and raw early personal computing was, flying
       | toasters, GORILLA.BAS, having mom yell "sorry" from upstairs
       | indicating in advance that you were about to be booted from your
       | online game because she picked up the phone, getting a copy of
       | Unreal with your AGP Voodoo card, what a fun era that was
        
       | severak_cz wrote:
       | I like, how every one is different.
       | 
       | - Maxintosh II (and LC) sounds like train departure announcement
       | - Quadra AV sounds like beginning of some 90s jugnle track - car
       | crash sounds like a car crash in DOS game - "Some Random
       | Performas" is bad guy coming to the scene in B-movie - this is my
       | favourite - PCI based macs is plain boring sound
        
       | jsrcout wrote:
       | Brings back some memories. On a similar note, does anyone
       | remember the "earthquake screen" on the early Macs?
        
       | sillysaurusx wrote:
       | After many decades, you can finally turn off the startup chime.
       | It's in Sound options -> play sound on startup. Was recently
       | delighted to discover that.
       | 
       | Now, if only I could turn _on_ the crash chimes...
        
       | Someone wrote:
       | _"for years, the Mac also came with a death sound, that would
       | play when the machine crashed."_
       | 
       | I don't think that's correct. Those sounds played when the power
       | on self test failed, not when the machine crashed (if the machine
       | gets as far as playing that sound, it won't crash, but very
       | likely will come to an ordinary halt)
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       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_startup: _"The classic
       | Macintosh startup sequence includes hardware tests which may
       | trigger the startup chime, Happy Mac, Sad Mac, and Chimes of
       | Death."_
        
       | chmaynard wrote:
       | The Quadra AV death chime is outstanding. It will make a nice
       | addition to my ringtones collection.
        
       | fnord77 wrote:
       | imagine hearing one of those clown tunes just as you lost hours
       | of work. I'd be livid.
        
       | wu_187 wrote:
       | I forget which mac's we had in high school, but ours would always
       | crash in CAD class with a loud "quack". They crashed so much we
       | would all mock the sound throughout class.
        
       | gamache wrote:
       | I supported Macs in the mid-90s, so I heard a lot of chimes. IIRC
       | the funky chord before the rest of the chime (you can hear part
       | of one at the beginning of the IIcx example) carried actual
       | diagnostic meaning. The one here, again IIRC (it's been a while)
       | means "I have no RAM".
        
       | amacbride wrote:
       | I had a 6100 and so I can confirm how startling the car crash
       | sound was!
        
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