On Nov 1, 2016, at 12:00 PM, "Brian O'Neal" <[email protected]> wrote: > > It's been the same chime for far too long. I'm ready for a change.
Yeah, they used to change them up a lot more often, but that was when sound chips were advancing at a faster pace. Initially, it was used to remind the user that it was one of the only computers that actually had sound. Then they were used to demonstrate the superiority of each generation’s sound capability over the previous one. As each chip could generate more simultaneous notes they would add more notes (and eventually harmonics) to the chime chord. It also coincidentally served to distinguish the generations of machines. An experienced ear could tell how new a machine was by its chime. Sort of a brag factor. That was also back when you had to start and restart computers a lot more often and so you got to hear it more. My Macs almost never get restarted these days. I checked Wikipedia to see which one was used in WallE. It turns out it is the same one first used on the 1999 G3s and every Mac since. I did NOT know this, though: > In 2016 Apple removed the startup chime from the late-2016 MacBook Pro.[5] > Apple has since updated its support documentation to reflect this change, > removing references to the startup chime from the NVRAM reset instructions > for this model,[6] however there is a UNIX terminal command that can be run > to re-enable the chime.[7] More goodies at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_startup jj -- Jonathan Fletcher [email protected] Kentuckiana FileMaker Developers Group Next Meeting: 11/22/16 Sent from a device not known for spontaneous combustion _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list Posting address: [email protected] Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/>
