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Every Mac Startup & Crash Chime

Listen to every Macintosh startup and crash chime beginning with the Macintosh 128k in 1984. Supreme Court makes major announcement Sharon Stone on the Moment Robert De Niro ‘Crossed a Line' Filming ...

Apple's 1991 Macintosh shipped with a bug that should've stopped it from booting, but no one ever knew because an undocumented CPU trick 'almost too crazy to be …

The thrust of the problem is that while running through its boot code in MAME, the Classic 2 would perform one instruction ...
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PC-9800 Boot Sounds For Modern Computers!

There have been many computers that played a little jingle to greet you upon booting. The NEC PC-9800 is a famous example, though almost all the Macintosh computers played either the soothing “booting ...
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The real reason that familiar Apple Mac chime is off key

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Excerpted from What the Ear Hears (and Doesn’t): Inside the ...