Bill Studenmund wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Ben Zeller wrote:
> 
> > 
> > To my knowledge a particular Macintosh model will play the same tones
> > regardless of what the failure is.  Different models use different sounds
> > -- the chimes of death are common in most 68k macs, first generation
> > powermacs made a car crash noise, etc.
> 
> Not so. While you're right that car crash vs chime is generation
> dependent, early macs did have different chimes for different errors. One
> was hardware, there were two different memory chimes, and I think there
> was a video one. I can't find it, but I had a program which would play the
> different sad mac chimes.

i've got an lkm that will do it on my q840av (i was messing with sound
under netbsd and accidentally played everything).  there is quite a bit of
stuff in there, actually.  it kinda goes clink, clank, clunk and a few
other things.  rather amusing....

-colin