‘Zwong!’ is the sound made by my daughter’s iMac, when it has completed a file move or copy operation. Although sometimes I think it’s more of a ‘Zwang!’ or even ‘Tkwong!’.
What sounds do your computers (and other technology items) make? Feel free to channel James Joyce.
I love the sound my laptop makes when it’s finished opening a .zip file, kind of a “Doodleep!” noise. I must admit that sometimes I piss around with the files just so I have an excuse to hear it.
Another one I like is the sound when the PS2’s logo comes up on the tv screen, the “WOM” noise.
I get annoyed at my work machine whenever it throws up an error message – BOWMP! – but I leave the settings alone, because I figure that’s what it’s designed to do. (Changed 'em at home, though, because I might actually kick that one.)
I miss the sound of the old first-gen Pentiums that’d go “cchrkk-kchk-kckRRRKk” when you really got 'em thinking. And of course, everyone loves the soothing woooooiiiiiiIIIIIIIIII of the CD-ROM drive that lets you know your disc is being read, followed by the quiet tssh-tssh of data access.
These are my favorites:
connecting a USB: duh-DONK?
disconnecting a USB: DUH-donk.
Even though I have progressed from ICQ to Trillian, I still set it to go “Uh-Oh!!!” at every new message, because I am so familiar with it that it’s become a Pavlov’s Dog experience.
None.
Which is odd.
Every sound card I’ve ever owned blows out, & I usually keep the sound & speakers turned off when I don’t need them. <baffled>
My computer is generally very silent, although the speakers do have the disconcerting habit of occasionally picking up stray signals from… cell phones? CB radios? The afterlife? All I know is that, every so often, it speaks to me in faint voices that I can’t quite understand. Last night it laughed at me in a woman’s voice. It’s a little unnerving.
I’ve turned off all the sound, because I can’t stand being beeped or buh-DONKed at. And it’s a solid state hard drive, so the only sound I hear out of this thing is when I put in a CD. Can hardly tell when it’s turned on.
As a The World Ends With You fan, my machine is chock full of Sho Minamimoto quotes. Assorted errors can be “So zetta slow!” or “TANGENT!” “Sine!” and “Cosine!” are assigned as alerts for assorted IMs.