Potato-tomato
Re:Mac Chimes of Death
by Mauricebranagh on Friday April 16, 2021 @04:45AM
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No not really when you got the chime of death it wasn't like a blue screen crash in windows it meant something was very wrong.
I had as top of the line Quadra AV play its car crash sound on boot once - it it was as dead as a door nail I could even boot it of a floppy.
>No not really when you got the chime of death it wasn't like a blue screen crash in windows it meant something was very wrong.
Yeah, hence my use of potato-tomato (instead of potato-potatoh as is the regular version).
In the sense that it's different but no so much - it's still a case of error reporting sound. Plus, I wanted to do the pun.
I don’t think that’s correct. Those sounds played when the power on self test failed, not when the machine crashed (if the machine gets as far as playing that sound, it won’t crash, but very likely will come to an ordinary halt)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_startup: “The classic Macintosh startup sequence includes hardware tests which may trigger the startup chime, Happy Mac, Sad Mac, and Chimes of Death.”