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- From: jimc@tau-ceti.isc-br.com (Jim Cathey)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
- Subject: Re: Death of the internal speaker ... or ?
- Message-ID: <2477@tau-ceti.isc-br.com>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 00:53:45 GMT
- References: <24139@castle.ed.ac.uk> <1992Jul26.125938.24145@metropolis.com>
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- In article <1992Jul26.125938.24145@metropolis.com> robert@metropolis.com (Robert Munyer) writes:
- >> the internal speaker in my monochrome monitor doesn't work anymore! with
- >> headphones it is perfect, though ... any ideas about what has happened to
- >
- >The way most headphone jacks work is that when you insert the plug, it bends a
- >springy piece of metal away from a contact that is connected to the speaker.
- >When you remove the plug, that piece of metal springs back. Maybe yours just
- >lost its springiness, and didn't come back all the way.
-
- Except that NeXT's don't work this way (my cube doesn't anyway). The
- headphone jack doesn't disable the internal speaker, but the MUTE key
- does!
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