The chime actually has a name - Sosumi - pronounced as it looks, ‘So sue me’. Here is a Wiki link to the history - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sosumi <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sosumi>
Bill > On Nov 1, 2016, at 12:49 PM, Jonathan Fletcher <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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/>
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