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From: billkatt@sol.engin.umich.edu (billkatt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Shinny new IIcx that sings!
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Date: 26 Mar 89 23:17:00 GMT
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In article <19331@srcsip.UUCP> mnkonar@gorby.UUCP (Murat N. Konar) writes:
>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 
>>notes in very nice sounding tone) and no screen at all! Not even a frowning
>>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 does this also.  It follows that the Mac IIx and IIcx should too,
>probably the SE/30 as well.  I think its pretty neat but perplexing if you 
>don't know what's going on.  Apple really should distribute a program that
>demonstartes the different "error" tunes so that a user knows that the tunes 
>mean something's wrong and doesn't think their Mac is just unusually happy to 
>see tham that day.
>
I don't think the SE/30 does it.  It is there so you can check out a machine
without having to put a video card in.  Since the SE/30 has a built in
monitor, I don't think they need that feature.  Apple DOES produce a program
which plays the noises and tells what they do.  I can mail it to anyone who
wants it.

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