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From: John Little - Nihon Sun Repair D...
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 1990 04:00

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In article <1990Jul12.1...@zoo.toronto.edu> he...@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
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%Changes in power demand can make switching power supplies make noises.
%Iris workstations are notorious for this.
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%NFS:  all the nice semantics of MSDOS, | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology

   How about those  U.K.  produced  ICL minis which  had a speaker  hooked
   into the address bus (buffered/summed/amp'ed??) and constantly produced
   a horrendous series of cackles and whoops.

   Legend has it that `real' ops could tell exactly what the beasties were
   doing by just listening to this  cacophony (there were probably a  fair
   proportion of ops  carted off by  the little men  in white coats  after
   being subject to it for days at a time, too!!)
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