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Yeah, once I bought my first PC, I rapidly realized that just disconnecting the speaker was the way to go. That said, I totally blame Microsoft for thinking th

Yeah, once I bought my first PC, I rapidly realized that just disconnecting the speaker was the way to go. That said, I totally blame Microsoft for thinking that ringing the bell was in any way acceptable. Even if the PCs of the day had a soothing, quiet 'ding' sound, emitting that for every compiler diagnostic was the height of stupidity. As it was, I recall the original PC bell sound as more like gear grinding, if your head was one of the gears.

WorldMaker 6y ago
Once per compiler diagnostic isn't quite so bad as POSIX and macOS apps I know that will ring the bell for every wrong key stroke. ;) (Even if more POSIX terminals these days make the bell actually sound like a bell or use a simple visual "nudge" instead and not the poor buzzsaw of an early DAC wired to a cheap speaker because it was free parts just laying around during the invention of the IBM PC, it's still amazing that terminals ever had a bell signal, as annoying as it can be, much less that apps intentionally used it or that it will forever be ambered into Unicode even. Learning to type a bell was a rite of passage for DOS kids, maybe with pseudo-terminals coming back into fashion it will be a thing kids learn again.)