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I remember running into a FileMaker database file which contained a list of all Mac hardware, including playable embedded AIFF files of what their startup chimes sounded like.

I feel like a librarian in the Library of Babel talking about the pre-prehistoric Internet.

Then again, maybe it was an old version the MacTracker app: https://mactracker.ca



The Mactracker app has a "hidden" feature (I think it is documented, but no-one reads that) - if you option-click on the Mac icons it plays the crash noise instead of the startup noise.

Only older Macs have crash noises, they went away after a while.




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