Looking for a sound generator chip

Michael A. Terrell wrote:
Charlie Edmondson wrote:

A few years back, the company gave out alarm clocks (cheap ones, of
course) to all the employees for some reason or the other. One
enterprising employee 'borrowed' a few of them, and, after setting to
different times, hid them around the bosses office. I cabinents, taped
under tables, above the ceiling tiles, in the ventilation duct...

Was entertaining as he tore his office apart looking for all of them!

Charlie


Back in the early '80s I worked for a large CATV systems operator. I
took care of the head end and repaired all their electronics while
trying to stay ahead of destructive customers and subcontractors who
constantly dropped equipment. The regular feild staff kept bragging
that they were going to pull an outragous stunt on the boss when he got
back from vaction, but as usual their plan was quite lame. I told them
they couldn't even plan a real stunt, let alone pull one off. They told
me I couldn't come up with anything better so i smiled and told them to
go to the lubmer yard to pick up two sheets of drywall and a 10 foot
piiece of baseboard that matched the existing baseboard, a gallon of
readymix drywall compound and paint to match the walls so they could
cover both doors to his office. Then we would get everyone to pretend
they had no idea who he was when he got back. You should have seen the
looks on their faces! ;-)
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thats fantastic. sissy's :)

My next suggestion was to move all his office furniture and new color
TV into our warehose and bring a bunch of the empty and nearly empty
wood spools to replace the furniture, and put a decripet old 12 inch B&W
TV in his office. It turned out that they were all talk and no action.
;-)
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I like that, too

I was a Broadcast engineer in the early '70s at a military TV station
in Alaska. The on air "Talent" had to wear their dress uniforms for the
newscasts, but they would sit behind the news desk in their boxers
because of the heat from the lights. When I had to run an "Actuality"
(A report recorded off the AFRN network and used with 35 mm slides) they
would jump up and shadow box or goof around. Quite often they were late
getting back in their seats so it looked like I couldn't switch cameras
on cue. After a week of their crap I rewired the studio monitors so
they didn't follow the on air signal. That night I got half way through
their first long "Actuality" and switched the video and audio monitors
to the preview circuits. They froze and looked at the dead speakers
first, and then at themselves on a coule video monitors that showed them
on air and out of uniform. They freaked out and ran behind the news desk
as I switched the monitors back to the on air signal. As soon as the
news was over they were in the control room screaming at me and calling
the station amanger about what they thought I had done to them. He had
no idea what they were talking about and assured them that he had
watched the entire newscast, and no, they were not seen in their boxers.
I was grinning when they turned back to me and told them that they had
recieved their one and only warning to stay seated during the newscast.
I wonder why people always told me that I wasn't very "GI"?

BTW, they reminded me of Les Nesman of WKRP, and Ted Baxter on the
Mary Tyler Moore shows.
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LOL :)

One friday night after drinkies (a common occurrence in the antipodes,
quite often someone would buy a keg and we'd all roll home at 3am) we
were talking crap in R&D, and somebody commented how small this guys
cubicle was (we'd undergone inflationary expansion, and doubled the
number of warm bodies). It occurred to me he had more space than he
needed, so we shifted one wall in about 3'. The next day, he had to turn
sideways to get between the filing cabinet and the partition, and ended
up sitting underneath the bookshelf hanging on that partition. Someone
commented on the difficulty of access, his reply was it keeps out
unwanted visitors. We had a stream of people turn up in R&D that day,
just to look. At 5pm someone spilled the beans - he hadnt noticed, all day.

A few weeks later we built a new room for the sw people, and he
dismantled his desk whilst underneath it. I pointed out it would fall on
his head, he just laughed. about 30 seconds later it fell on his head.
He won the idiot of the year award for that at the Christmas do, a nice
bottle of bubbles and 200 people laughing. He now works as a lab
assistant at a small uni.....

Cheers
Terry
 
"Tim" <RespondToGroupPlease@YouUnderstand.com> wrote in message
news:bz5Me.2757$Hn3.774@newssvr23.news.prodigy.net...
Hi,
I'm looking for an IC to generate a simple pleasant tone to use in a
medical
product.

The tone will be for a patient call button. A simple chime or pleasant
gong
will do.

I cannot find anything like this out there.

Can anybody point me to a manufacturer of such chips?

Thanks,
Tim

www.velotec.com
(714) 695-1500
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Tim,
Look at the SAE800 tone generator chips from Infineon and/or Siemens.... 1,
2 or 3 tones, with frequency and level control.
Cheers!!!!!
--
Dave M
MasonDG44 at comcast dot net (Just subsitute the appropriate characters in
the address)

Never take a laxative and a sleeping pill at the same time!!
 
"Spehro Pefhany" <speffSNIP@interlogDOTyou.knowwhat> wrote in message
news:iuc2g1lc79bd089bm1d2bmcgn1j5v7cne4@4ax.com...
On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 23:10:20 GMT, the renowned Joerg
notthisjoergsch@removethispacbell.net> wrote:

Hello Tim,

I'm looking for an IC to generate a simple pleasant tone to use in
a medical
product.

That's often a high class market. So, if you somehow have to immitate
a
Tchaikovsky or Brahms sequence instead of a boring "boing boing
boing"
this may be the ticket:
http://www.rohm.com/products/shortform/04mobile/mobile_index2a.html#6

Drum set functions too. Maybe he could get it to play some appropriate
Chopin if the EKG signal so indicates. ;-)
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Recently I went in for one of those every three year inspections, and I
heard those pulse, b.p. and oxy monitors beeping a few the beds down.
But it wasn't just beeping, it was going up and down and up in tone,
beep, boop, bop, boop, beep.. I asked the nurse what that was all about
and she said it was the blood pressure. Weird..

Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany
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"Terry Given" <my_name@ieee.org> wrote in message
news:0lsMe.3362$iM2.313195@news.xtra.co.nz...
Michael A. Terrell wrote:
Charlie Edmondson wrote:

A few years back, the company gave out alarm clocks (cheap ones, of
course) to all the employees for some reason or the other. One
enterprising employee 'borrowed' a few of them, and, after setting
to
different times, hid them around the bosses office. I cabinents,
taped
under tables, above the ceiling tiles, in the ventilation duct...

Was entertaining as he tore his office apart looking for all of
them!

Charlie


Back in the early '80s I worked for a large CATV systems
operator. I
took care of the head end and repaired all their electronics while
trying to stay ahead of destructive customers and subcontractors who
constantly dropped equipment. The regular feild staff kept bragging
that they were going to pull an outragous stunt on the boss when he
got
back from vaction, but as usual their plan was quite lame. I told
them
they couldn't even plan a real stunt, let alone pull one off. They
told
me I couldn't come up with anything better so i smiled and told them
to
go to the lubmer yard to pick up two sheets of drywall and a 10 foot
piiece of baseboard that matched the existing baseboard, a gallon of
readymix drywall compound and paint to match the walls so they could
cover both doors to his office. Then we would get everyone to
pretend
they had no idea who he was when he got back. You should have seen
the
looks on their faces! ;-)

thats fantastic. sissy's :)
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Sissy's _what_??

Oh, I get it. You meant sissies.



[snip]
Cheers
Terry
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I read in sci.electronics.design that "Watson A.Name - \"Watt Sun, the
Dark Remover\"" <NOSPAM@dslextreme.com> wrote (in
<11g614qsog1vv1d@corp.supernews.com>) about 'Looking for a sound
generator chip', on Wed, 17 Aug 2005:
Recently I went in for one of those every three year inspections, and I
heard those pulse, b.p. and oxy monitors beeping a few the beds down.
But it wasn't just beeping, it was going up and down and up in tone,
beep, boop, bop, boop, beep.. I asked the nurse what that was all
about and she said it was the blood pressure. Weird..
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Goodness, gracious me! (Peter Sellers and Sophia Loren)
--
Regards, John Woodgate, OOO - Own Opinions Only.
There are two sides to every question, except
'What is a Moebius strip?'
http://www.jmwa.demon.co.uk Also see http://www.isce.org.uk
 
Watson A.Name - "Watt Sun, the Dark Remover" wrote:
"Terry Given" <my_name@ieee.org> wrote in message
news:0lsMe.3362$iM2.313195@news.xtra.co.nz...

Michael A. Terrell wrote:

Charlie Edmondson wrote:


A few years back, the company gave out alarm clocks (cheap ones, of
course) to all the employees for some reason or the other. One
enterprising employee 'borrowed' a few of them, and, after setting

to

different times, hid them around the bosses office. I cabinents,

taped

under tables, above the ceiling tiles, in the ventilation duct...

Was entertaining as he tore his office apart looking for all of

them!

Charlie


Back in the early '80s I worked for a large CATV systems

operator. I

took care of the head end and repaired all their electronics while
trying to stay ahead of destructive customers and subcontractors who
constantly dropped equipment. The regular feild staff kept bragging
that they were going to pull an outragous stunt on the boss when he

got

back from vaction, but as usual their plan was quite lame. I told

them

they couldn't even plan a real stunt, let alone pull one off. They

told

me I couldn't come up with anything better so i smiled and told them

to

go to the lubmer yard to pick up two sheets of drywall and a 10 foot
piiece of baseboard that matched the existing baseboard, a gallon of
readymix drywall compound and paint to match the walls so they could
cover both doors to his office. Then we would get everyone to

pretend

they had no idea who he was when he got back. You should have seen

the

looks on their faces! ;-)

thats fantastic. sissy's :)


Sissy's _what_??

Oh, I get it. You meant sissies.



[snip]

Cheers
Terry
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indeed. and my hobby is pronouning big words eg Ovipositor

Cheers
Terry
 
I read in sci.electronics.design that Terry Given <my_name@ieee.org>
wrote (in <79TNe.4293$iM2.441761@news.xtra.co.nz>) about 'Looking for a
sound generator chip', on Sun, 21 Aug 2005:

indeed. and my hobby is pronouning big words eg Ovipositor
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It must be a very limited hobby; there are only a few variants on 'her
ovipositor'; male pronouns are obviously inappropriate.
--
Regards, John Woodgate, OOO - Own Opinions Only.
If everything has been designed, a god designed evolution by natural selection.
http://www.jmwa.demon.co.uk Also see http://www.isce.org.uk
 
"John Woodgate" <jmw@jmwa.demon.contraspam.yuk> wrote in message
news:ngtTPVBcKCCDFwBn@jmwa.demon.co.uk...
I read in sci.electronics.design that Terry Given <my_name@ieee.org
wrote (in <79TNe.4293$iM2.441761@news.xtra.co.nz>) about 'Looking for
a
sound generator chip', on Sun, 21 Aug 2005:

indeed. and my hobby is pronouning big words eg Ovipositor

It must be a very limited hobby; there are only a few variants on 'her
ovipositor'; male pronouns are obviously inappropriate.
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Unless 'it' happens to be a hermaphrodite. :-O

Like snails...

> --
 
Watson A.Name - "Watt Sun, the Dark Remover" wrote:
"John Woodgate" <jmw@jmwa.demon.contraspam.yuk> wrote in message
news:ngtTPVBcKCCDFwBn@jmwa.demon.co.uk...

I read in sci.electronics.design that Terry Given <my_name@ieee.org
wrote (in <79TNe.4293$iM2.441761@news.xtra.co.nz>) about 'Looking for

a

sound generator chip', on Sun, 21 Aug 2005:


indeed. and my hobby is pronouning big words eg Ovipositor

It must be a very limited hobby; there are only a few variants on 'her
ovipositor'; male pronouns are obviously inappropriate.


Unless 'it' happens to be a hermaphrodite. :-O

Like snails...
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Sorry, I grew up listening to Spike Milligan. Its the story of how the
cough was invented....

betcha veiled python references dont get missed.

Cheers
Terry
 
I read in sci.electronics.design that Terry Given <my_name@ieee.org>
wrote (in <Lp8Oe.4456$iM2.463861@news.xtra.co.nz>) about 'Looking for a
sound generator chip', on Mon, 22 Aug 2005:
Sorry, I grew up listening to Spike Milligan. Its the story of how the
cough was invented....
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Well, I listened to the Goon Show, but I am less familiar with other
Milligan material.
betcha veiled python references dont get missed.
Click to expand...
There's so much of it, that any particular reference might well be
missed.
--
Regards, John Woodgate, OOO - Own Opinions Only.
If everything has been designed, a god designed evolution by natural selection.
http://www.jmwa.demon.co.uk Also see http://www.isce.org.uk
 
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