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thomashawk.com - 1/27/2009

U.S. Rep Pete King Wants Your Cell Phone Camera to Go “Beep”

— thomashawk.com — U.S. New York Representative Pete King (Republican, Long Island) introduced a new bill in Congress this month... H.R.414: “To require mobile phones containing digital cameras to make a sound when a photograph is taken. ” The short title of ... (more) U.S. Rep Pete King Wants Your Cell Phone Camera to Go “Beep”

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blog.makezine.com - 1/22/2009

Boot Beep - The story of the Mac's boot chime, with source code

— blog.makezine.com — 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 ... (more) Boot Beep - The story of the Mac's boot chime, with ...

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Boot Beep - The story of the Mac's boot chime, with source code
MAKE Magazine — 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 the diagnostics, sort of like an infant's first cry, letting the world know that you actually made it here. The 1981 Macintosh just had a square wave sound generator, where the software controlled the frequency by loading a value into the VIA's timer. I wrote a boot sound routine that gradually incremented the frequency at an accelerating pace, so it had a whooping quality to it that ...

The history of the Mac Boot Beep
Boing Boing Gadgets — ... and never got very enthusiatic about 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]