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Cupholder.exe (lemmy.zip)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] bandwidthcrisis 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You could just about play speech using one bit output using pulse-width-modulation. But it was almost unrecognizable. And would take a lot of memory for the time.

It was usual to have different numbers of beeps for POST errors.

But this was an age when a PC would say "Keyboard error. Press any key to continue", so things were not thought out that well.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If your keyboard was actually working, you pressed a key. If it was not working, you went to get new keyboard. What is "not thought through" about that?

[–] bandwidthcrisis 2 points 6 months ago

But you're not allowed to proceed in life until you've pressed any key!