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From: jeff@visix.UUCP (Jeff Barr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Shinny new IIcx that sings!
Summary: Mac II did it too
Message-ID: <189@visix.UUCP>
Date: 25 Mar 89 16:08:14 GMT
References: <1424@wasatch.UUCP>
Organization: Visix Software, Arlington, Virginia
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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 
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> notes in very nice sounding tone) and no screen at all! Not even a frowning
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> 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 did this for a bad memory configuration.  Too bad it didn't play
"Taps" -- If you have never turned one on normally, you won't know that this
little jingle means "you memory is screwed up".

							Jeff
> -- 
> Tony Jacobs * Center for Engineering Design * U of U * t-jacobs@ced.utah.edu

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