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Macintosh startup

The Macintosh startup sequence for Apple Macintosh (or Mac) computers includes hardware tests and diagnostics which can trigger the startup chimes and/or other instances of success or failure of the startup routines.

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Startup process

Startup chime

Happy Mac and Apple logo

Bomb screen and kernel panic

Sad Mac

Chimes of Death

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Macintosh startup

Nodes135
Edges134
Triples50
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.014815
Components1

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Macintosh startup

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related to Startup chime · 46
Macintosh startup → All, Andy Hertzfeld, Anniversary Macintosh, Apple, Apple Sound Chip, Chimes, Death, Fairlight CMI, For, Furthermore, G3, He, Hz, It, It's, Jim Reekes, Korg Wavestation, Korg Wavestation EX, LC II, Macintosh

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Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
PowerBook 540cinstance ofOn some Macintoshes0.80text
if the user presses the commandinstance ofOn some Macintoshes0.80text
power keys before the boot screen is displayedinstance ofOn some Macintoshes0.80text
only the Chimes of Death are playedinstance ofOn some Macintoshes0.80text
Macintosh startuprelated to Startup chimeThe Macintosh0.60section
Macintosh startuprelated to Startup chimeThe0.60section
Macintosh startuprelated to Startup chimeROM0.60section
Macintosh startuprelated to Startup chimeMacintosh0.60section
Macintosh startuprelated to Startup chimeFor0.60section
Macintosh startuprelated to Startup chimePower Macintosh0.60section
Macintosh startuprelated to Startup chimeSad Mac0.60section
Macintosh startuprelated to Startup chimeChimes0.60section

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