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From: juergen@julien.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Juergen Stuber)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: speaker silencers?
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Date: 3 May 91 14:35:05 GMT
References: <1991Apr29.081704.6199@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1991May2.181604.4806@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
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In article <1991May2.181604.4806@nntp-server.caltech.edu>, heathh@piglet (Heath Ian Hunnicutt) writes:
|> In article <1991Apr29.081704.6199@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> ftw33616@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu  
|> (The great goofy one) writes:
|> > Hi... 
|> > I am in search of a program to silence my speaker...
|> 
|> Don't use a program -- none of them can really shut your speaker up.  Instead,  
|> if you are "lucky" enough to have one of those stupid key-lock switches  
|> installed on your machine, you can make it into a speaker switch rather easily.
|> [...]
|> Heath Hunnicutt
|> heathh@pooh.cco.caltech.edu

On my old computer, I put a 150 ohms resistor in line with the speaker.
Then those beeps and game noises are still perceptible, but no longer loud.

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Juergen Stuber (juergen@ls5.informatik.uni-dortmund.de)