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In fact the BBC Micro would “boot” in the time it takes to play two musical notes, one octave and a tone apart (double-length-B, short-C, geddit?!) To be fair
by gorgoiler 6y ago
In fact the BBC Micro would “boot” in the time it takes to play two musical notes, one octave and a tone apart (double-length-B, short-C, geddit?!)
To be fair to PCs the DFS prompt was more like a boot-loader than an OS.
- jlarcombe 6y agoHah I never noticed that those were those notes! I believe that's just a remarkable coincidence because the first, lower note is just the result of the SN76489 sound chip being powered up but "uninitialised", as it were. In theory different chips would give different tones but in practice all the ones they used seemed to give a consistent result.