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Cupholder.exe (lemmy.zip)
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[+] -6 points 2 years ago* (5 children)

Ohhhh right. Well its worth the <$1 of input costs.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    That would be way more complex to have the motherboard play than a sequence of beeps at different frequencies. Especially at the time.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    You could just about play speech using one bit output using pulse-width-modulation. But it was almost unrecognizable. And would take a lot of memory for the time.

    It was usual to have different numbers of beeps for POST errors.

    But this was an age when a PC would say "Keyboard error. Press any key to continue", so things were not thought out that well.

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