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From: macman@ethz.UUCP (Danny Schwendener)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Shinny new IIcx that sings!
Message-ID: <804@ethz.UUCP>
Date: 28 Mar 89 17:57:55 GMT
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Reply-To: macman@ethz.UUCP (Danny Schwendener)
Organization: ETH Zuerich, Switzerland
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>>                           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.

We have such a program from apple. it's actually made for dealers and
tech reps. Don't know if it's available outside the rep world. Ask
macdts.

-- Danny

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