Re:Macintosh Startup Sound History [video]
by toast0 on Friday June 15, 2018 @04:33PM
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I agree that the sound could be useful at times, but it was awful when booting a computer in the middle of the night to respond to a page; that sound could wake up everyone in the house, and i couldn't figure out how to turn it off.
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Re:Macintosh Startup Sound History [video]
by wool_gather on Friday June 15, 2018 @08:39PM
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Yeah, it would be nice to disable it selectively -- just silence it for this one boot. It may be a false memory, but I think this used to be possible at some point in the 00s, by holding down the mute button on the keyboard. Also possibly in the late 90s it went through external speakers if they were hooked up?