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Larry Bolhuis wrote:
Audible Alarm? Didn't know there was such a thing. I'm thinking it's
more likely a drive crying for attention. Just leave it alone and it
will go away soon. ;-)
Yes, Virginia, there is such an audible alarm on an AS/400. The sound is
definitely issuing from the control panel. It sounds rather like (as one
colleague put it) a constipated alarm clock, or (as I put it myself, a
few minutes later) a clarinet being slowly strangled. The engineers must
have worked long and hard to come up with a sound that quiet, and yet
that annoying. Up until then, the most annoying alarm I'd heard from a
piece of computer hardware was the "bell" on an old (and unreliable)
daisywheel printing terminal in my old high school lab, almost 30 years
ago: sounded like a duck trying to quack with a stuffed-up nose.
If we power up our 40S without turning a connected terminal on, it lets
out one or two of these same quietly annoying alarm tones to remind me
to turn on the 3477 on my desk.
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