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What is the rationale behing the thinkpad beep?
Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 5:09 pm
by gator
Folks,
Does anyone know the rationale behind the "thinkpad beep" (new name by me
) that tries to make you deaf if you have your earphones on? Why is it triggered only with some very specific key combinations - any history behind this?
Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 6:48 pm
by RealBlackStuff
Could it be that a certain key-combination opens up the microphone input?
You'd then get audio-feedback which does sound like you describe.
Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 8:35 pm
by sugo
It's not the microphone ...
Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 5:03 pm
by Leikeze Ajnin
The key combos are more likely the result of the fact that you're pressing too many of certain types of keys at once. This triggers a beep on all Windows platforms, there is a thread elsewhere that describes how to tell Windows to stop doing that.
I think part of the problem with the beep is that it is a "PC Speaker" beep, which there is no volume control for (that I've seen) on some models, say the T-60. Which to me was odd, 'cause the T-20 and T-30 I used had such a volume control, and I could prevent myself from being deafened when hitting too many keys or switching from battery to AC (or vice versa).