Twitter/reekes Former Apple employee Jim Reekes. Former Apple employee Jim Reekes, the man behind the Mac's famous startup sound — the noise the computer makes as it's booting up — has explained in a ...

Computers used to be a lot noisier than they are today. And I don’t just mean the whir of spinning hard disks and the rattle of fans—they used to boop and beep every time you turned them on. If you ...

Have you ever experienced a frustrating situation when you press the power button On, your Windows computer boots up sometimes and never boots the first time? You try again and again, and it finally ...