RE: PC Sounds from As/400

[Neil Palmer <npalmer@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

If you want annoying, just play Bill Gates last speech !   :-)



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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric [SMTP:Eric@norcov.com]
> Sent: Friday, June 12, 1998 6:22 PM
> To:   'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'
> Subject:      RE: PC Sounds from As/400
> 
> Perhaps you can somehow utilize the PC speaker.  You should be able to
> generate several annoying beeps.
> 
> Eric Kempter
> Director of MIS
> Commair Mechanical Services
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: DAsmussen@aol.com [SMTP:DAsmussen@aol.com]
> Sent: Friday, June 12, 1998 12:29 PM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      Re: PC Sounds from As/400
> 
> Alan,
> 
> In a message dated 98-06-12 11:37:10 EDT, you write:
> 
> <<snip>>
> > What they want is the PC to make, and I will quote the CIO "BAD
> SOUNDS".
> <<snip>>
> 
> Is this a technical term that one must have a Master's Degree in IS to
> comprehend?  I'm usually discouraged from making "Bad Sounds",
> particularly
> after eating pizza ;-)!
> 
> Seriously though, shop floor PC's are rarely equipped to handle the
> request.
> If you're running without a sound card (which most are), you cannot
> enable an
> "event" to generate a sound, AFAIK, unless you wrote the HLLAPI
> program
> yourself.  You might contact the HLLAPI vendor, but I think you may be
> SOL...
> 
> JMHO,
> 
> Dean Asmussen
> 
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