blog.makezine.com - 1/22/2009
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Boot Beep - The story of the Mac's boot chime, with source code written in 68000 assembly language... Andy Hertzfeld -
When you powered up an Apple II, it would make a short beep sound to let you know that it was alive. We thought that the Mac should do something similar, once it passed ...
blog.integrii.net - 1/22/2009
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blog.integrii.net —
I was thinking about neat things to do
with all the space on my 4Gb Micro SD...
card one day when I realized… I could put a bootable OS on there! The first one that came to mind was my personal favorite utility CD: UBCD. Ultimate Boot CD lets you ...
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Boot UBCD (Ultimate Boot CD) from your Android phone ...
folklore.org - 1/22/2009
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folklore.org —
W hen you powered up an Apple II,
it would make a short beep sound to let...
you know that it was alive. We thought that the Mac should do something similar, once it passed the diagnostics, sort of like an infant's first cry, letting the world know that ...
(more)
Macintosh Stories: Boot Beep
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The history of the Mac Boot Beep
Boing Boing Gadgets —
... the Mac after that. A couple of weeks later, he transfered back to the Apple II group, leaving the boot beep as his only legacy.
Very recognizably Steve. Folklore has a lot of great anecdotes up by Andy about early Apple, Mac and Lisa development, including this hilarious one explaining why Apple went with "OK" over "Do It" for their dialog windows: people thought the software was calling them a 'dolt.'
Boot Beep [Folklore.org via MAKE]
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