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From: mx!cbcscavc@csun.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Shinny new IIcx that sings!
Summary: I have a diagnostic sound sampler program
Keywords: Diagnostic Sound Sampler Program
Message-ID: <2032@csun.edu>
Date: 26 Mar 89 07:19:54 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 have just such a program called "diagnostic sound sampler".
It does not have any credits or an "about" box, so I don't know who
wrote it or what its status (I think its freeware).  If there is enough
interest, I will forward it to the moderator of comp.binaries.mac.


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