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From: jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: System Beep on power on. FLAME
Message-ID: <882@peora.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 3-May-85 08:47:19 EDT
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Posted: Fri May  3 08:47:19 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 4-May-85 01:58:41 EDT
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> IBM PC's don't beep, why should macs.

Yes they do.  The ROM start-up diagnostic on the IBM PC uses a beep to
signal whether the CPU test completed successfully, and other beep patterns
to signal if it failed (and for what reason).  This is done in case the
display is not working, so you can find out whether it's not working
because the CPU couldn't initialize the display, or whether the display is
bad but the CPU is fine.  Actually, the IBM PC also makes a distinctive
"honk-honk" noise from the A: disk drive whenever you reboot it, also,
because they move the heads in and out, with the stepping rate set to a low
(and thus noisy) rate, in order to test them before loading the OS.  At
least the mac makes a nice bell tone, instead...
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