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I wish I could add the 'Samsung Whistle' to this list:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5h411OcttA

Every time I hear it on public transport (never anywhere else) it gives me terrible pain in all the diodes down my left side. I wish this sound to be extinct.

There is also some incoming mail sound on Mapple computers that I am spared at the moment - probably because all the Mapple products near me have upgraded to Zirconium Mountain Frog (or whatever it is) - but that sound seemed against what you would really need for concentration and productivity.

Some of the legacy sounds in this gallery were rather good - the Nokia sound wasn't thrown together, neither was the Windows 95 startup sound.

There are reasons for this, for instance, with Windows 95 'multi-media' was A Big Thing. Before then a sound card wasn't what you would have on a machine used for business porpoises, plus, before plug'n'play, you would have to spend at least a day installing it in such a way you still had some of your 640K free. With Windows 95 and the Altec Lansing speakers that came bundled with your PC It Just Worked.




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