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Boot Beep - The story of the Mac's boot chime, with source code
blog.makezine.com - 1/22/2009
Boot Beep - The story of the Mac's boot chime, with source code
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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 ...
Boot UBCD (Ultimate Boot CD) from your Android phone (T-Mobile G1)
blog.integrii.net - 1/22/2009
Boot UBCD (Ultimate Boot CD) from your Android phone (T-Mobile G1)
— 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 ... (more) Boot UBCD (Ultimate Boot CD) from your Android phone ...

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folklore.org - 1/22/2009
Macintosh Stories: Boot Beep
— 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
gadgets.boingboing.net - 1/22/2009
The history of the Mac Boot Beep - Boing Boing Gadgets
— gadgets.boingboing.net — popsci.jpg This post by Andy Hertzfeld over on Folklore.org about the origins of the 1982 Mac's famous... boot beep (complete with downloadable 68000 assembly source code) is delicious fodder for more technical minded Mac fans, but this anecdote will ... (more) The history of the Mac Boot Beep - Boing Boing Gadgets

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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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