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Beeping Computers
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Computers in movies and television have a knack for making a lot of unnecessary or uncommon noises. It seems as if producers think audiences won't believe a computer is doing anything unless it's making beeps and boops during the process. Extra points are awarded when the incessant beeping is accompanied by a text box with flashing letters or border. If a character zooms closer in a picture or a digital map, expect to hear accompanying beeps or whirls. This trope is most common in techno-thrillers, sci-fi or action plots. As this phenomenon is very common in older works, where the computers in question are often extremely outdated, there is generally a large overlap with Zeerust and Our Graphics Will Suck in the Future, although it is still far from being a Discredited Trope as of now. In Real Life, results vary. Computers run quietly by default, with the most noise originating from motors such as the ones that control the machine's disk drives, or the ones powering its cooling fans. Those who spend significant amounts of time using their computers for work or play are often able to develop enough Machine Empathy for their machine to judge things like whether the processor is being overworked, or whether a program is frozen or just reading from the harddrive, simply by the pitch of the fan noise, the hums and squeaks of the harddrive motor, subtle static chirps audible through headphones, and the vibrations of the case. Beyond that, any other noise is produced by playing an audio sample through the computer's sound system, something known as auditory feedback: A beep to inform you that yes, the computer registered that you pressed a button. However, the meaning of it varies; a user can usually configure whether or not their computer should play a sound in response to specific events, ranging from mouse clicks and dropdown menus to application errors to friends logging in and out of IM. The only time you'll hear a computer's hardware beep these days is if something goes wrong on boot, like a RAM error; the different frequencies and arrangements of tones tell you what's wrong, if you're familiar with them. The BIOS may sound beeps on startup if a memory, cache or processor error is happening. A relative of the Extreme Graphical Representation and Viewer-Friendly Interface. Compare Pac Man Fever, which applies to video games instead of computers. Examples |
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In The Crystal Maze, lots of the devices in the Futuristic Zone beep. There is a code entered on a beeping keypad to open each door, although this seems to serve no purpose; a "bomb defusing" game has a background beeping, which becomes more urgent and high-pitched as the time runs out, and Richard O'Brien also runs a beeping radiation detector over a contestant who has been dealing with nuclear waste. | |
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Room: Jack and Ma receive some warning that Old Nick is about to enter, from the beep-beep of the keypad to open the door. | |
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In the short-lived comedy Come Back Mrs. Noah, any futuristic device of the year 2050 will require excessive button-pushing with appropriate sound effects, followed by inappropriate sound effects like farting noises when the device activates (and inevitably malfunctions). | |
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Clone High: Usually parodied. When Mr. Scudworth types on his computer, it makes funny sounds. Specifically the "Quack" and "Sosumi" sounds from Macintosh operating systems. When Mr. B runs Gandhi's symptoms of ADDnote impulsiveness, hyperactivity, and short attention span through his computer, he sounds like a human imitating "beeping computer" sounds. |
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"The Last Question": (Subverted Trope) When Multivac is seen at the start of the story, it is softly clicking (and some lights were flashing) because it was sorting routine data. When Adell and Lupov asked it the titular question, "The slow flashing of lights ceased, the distant sounds of clicking relays ended." Later iterations of Multivac are so complex they don't make any noise except for speaking naturally with the human users. | |
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Magical Pokaan: Aiko, the android character, emits realistic computer sounds, such as the noise of a hard disk spinning up and seeking when she wakes up or is deep in thought. In one episode her malfunctioning speech circuits make her voice skip and stutter in exactly the same manner audio playback can stutter on a malfunctioning or underpowered computer. | |
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Probe's "Untouched by Human Hands": Serendip uses robots for mundane tasks, and they respond to voice commands with beeps. | |
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The "Item Room Ambience" in Metroid and its sequels sounds like touch-tone dial beeps. | |
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Airplane II: The Sequel clearly fits this trope as on Moonbase Alpha Beta the commander almost goes insane because of the incessant "flashing and beeping" of the computers. | |
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The Outer Limits (1963): Justified Trope since the series was made during The '60s, when computers blooped and bleeped in real life. | |
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The computers in V for Vendetta do this, despite obviously being regular Apple computers. | |
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When Lisbeth in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) uses her computer for hacking purposes, it makes an uncharacteristic beep every time she makes a keystroke. One would think that keyboard noises should be sufficient. | |
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In Discworld: One of the many strange peripherals on Hex is a device whose sole apparent purpose is to go "parp" every fourteen minutes. The imps in the Dis-organizers say "Bingely-bingely beep!", which is apparently meant to be the sound a pager makes when it's notifying you of something. |
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In one scene in Drumline, the conductor uses a printer to print sheet music for the band. The printer is an inkjet. It makes the distinctive noise of a dot matrix printer. | |
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Every time anybody uses a computer in Ghost Whisperer it makes a sound effect after the user does anything. | |
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In "The Library" on Peppa Pig, when Daddy Pig's library book is scanned in as ten years overdue, the library computer actually sounds and flashes a siren and displays a frowny face. "Mummy Pig At Work", a episode where Daddy fixes Mummy Pig's computer displays a similar example. |
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In System Shock 2, computer panels tend to make lots of noise. | |
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There is a scene in Spider-Man where the school children are leaving the lab and the camera pans to a computer screen that shows a new species of spider has been created, accompanied with a lot of flashing and beeping. | |
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"Point of View": Roger hears Multivac "chuckling and whirring all about" when he visits. We know that Multivac is working because of all the noise. | |
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Fallout 3 continues the ancient, tape drive, room-size computers of previous two games. Beeps included. Interaction with a computer terminal in said game series also produces beeping noises when the terminal screen is refreshing or when the player interacts with the terminal during the hacking minigames. | |
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Ziggy, Al's computer from Quantum Leap, has its own set of beeps, boops, and squeals, the latter of which usually indicates an error to be fixed via use of Percussive Maintenance. | |
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Big Hero 6: The holoscreen in Hiro's garage produces sounds when interacted with. | |
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Smallville: In an episode, Chloe highlighted a section of a picture on a computer. The computer, on its own, then highlighted a portion of that section and beeped. | |
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In the "Kip Comes To His Senses" episode of Word Party, Kip's new toy, the Bopping Beetle, plays sounds that gives CrazyBus' soundtrack a run for it's money. | |
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The episode of Arthur where Arthur visits the sanitation center. The back room looks like some kind of James Bond villain's base, with walls of mainframe computers covered in blinkenlights that are constantly beeping. A bit... dated for a '90s show, as you can imagine. | |
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In Iron Fist, a datapad makes a sound when it's finished uploading its program into a Super Star Destroyer's computer. This attracts a little attention, but Shalla is able to bully the stormtroopers into thinking the sound came from outside of the bridge - she's there as part of The Infiltration. | |
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An episode of Garfield and Friends features in one episode Jon going on a dating game show, which presents a large, impressive looking mainframe computer that Jon's dating data is fed into, in order to match him with a prospective date. The back of the computer reveals it's just a giant cardboard prop, with some guy whose job it is to take the fed-in-data, press a tape recorder playing computer-beeping-noises for a few moments, then spit out pre-written "results" through a slot. | |
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Star Trek: Star Trek: The Original Series: Computers in the original series beeped because it was a futuristic interpretation of the rather noisy computers of The '60s (which really did have blinking lights too). Star Trek: The Next Generation: The LCARS interface chirps, beeps or bleeps every time it shows a new word, plots a planet in a star chart or changes a value in a number-filled spreadsheet. There is actually a point to this: Giving feedback to the user, since an absence of mechanical keys means you cannot "feel" anymore whether you actually pressed something. |
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NCIS: An egregious example occurs in an episode featuring the Real Life freeware space simulator Celestia. The actual program has no sound effects at all. In another episode McGee tells Tony shutting down a mainframe isn't a video game, cut to a a helpful countdown to the time remaining, announcements of the firewalls he has breached, and the solution is Gibbs shooting the computer to prevent it from sending its kill command (except the only thing he shot was the monitor). |
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The original Knight Rider has KITT emiting a characteristic sound whenever it lights its frontal scanner and enters "Surveillance Mode". The sound was so associated with KITT that the 2008 series carried the same sound effect (the front scanner light effect was completely different, though). | |
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Using any computer terminal in Xenogears results in a loud series of clicks as if someone tossed a handful of loose change into a clothes dryer. The noise always persists until the interface ends. | |
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Daredevil (2015): When Ben Urich watches Wilson Fisk's press conference and realizes that his editorial will be moot, he deletes the file with a definitive bleeping sound. | |
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Star Trek: The Original Series: Computers in the original series beeped because it was a futuristic interpretation of the rather noisy computers of The '60s (which really did have blinking lights too). | |
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In Jurassic Park (1993), after the protagonists basically reboot the entire park to get the power back up, the computers come on with a "System Ready" prompt and a blinking cursor. A blinking cursor that also beeps. This would get really annoying on a real computer. However, this was the only point where such a contrivance was used in the back-end systems, and was conceivably put in as a "The multi-billion-dollar theme park is ready to go, please get off your butt and get started" reminder for easily distracted computer operators. Or put in by Nedry in one of his less destructive Jerkass moments. | |
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EXTRAPOWER: Big Gun is an antique robot in the Dark Force Army, now reduced to a decommissioned museum piece, that resembles a boxy, antique computer but with a big gun attached. If Platinum has studied alien technology throughout the game, she can reactivate him. And upon reactivation, Big Gun speaks entirely via Bi bi? Bi bi bi bi! Bi bi electronic chirps. | |
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PCs in the Pokémon games beep when used. | |
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Futurama: Parodied, when Professor Farnsworth tries telling Fry that he has to wait for two specific beeps from the computer before analyzing is done. The computer seems to deliberately mock Fry by beeping in everything but the specified way. Also parodied when Bender was running a computer dating service and ran Zapp Brannigan's preference card through the Computer Data Matchupifier (read: crumpling it up and throwing it in his chest compartment), making beeps and boops to trick Zapp think it was actually having something done. Boxy, Calculon's robot sidekick who's basically a mainframe on tank treads. He can communicate anything with a single, nondescript beep. |
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NUMB3RS: Every scroll and click makes some sort of noise. | |
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CrazyBus is well known for turning your MegaDrive or Genesis into one. | |
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Parodied in Monty Python's The Meaning of Life with a very expensive piece of medical equipment that goes PING for no obviously apparent reason other than that hospitals need machines that go PING. It's wheeled in to impress a visiting manager. | |
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The Nail Gun Massacre has a computer that literally beeps with every keystroke. | |
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Wonder Woman (1975): IRAC and Rover were regularly shown with whirring tape machines and beeping superfluous sounds. | |
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Mr. Socrates is a sentient computer that parcels out the assignments to the heroes of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids. And strangely enough, he's allergic to dogs—namely the kids' dog Elvis. | |
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In the first TRON movie, the computer Kevin Flynn used to hack into ENCOM was particularly noisy - it beeped each time he pressed a key, or when the cursor blinked. The workstations in ENCOM beeped for each row of text displayed from any system generated messages, and made a long buzz when the "End of Line" text was shown at the end of the whole message. | |
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The main character in The Saint (1997) breaks into the leading actress' apartment and begins downloading information from her personal computer. The computer not only flips through the electronic notes on the desktop as they are siphoned onto the hero's external hard drive, but also scrolls down through the bottom of one of the pages, highlights a quote and beeps. | |
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Most all computer consoles, terminals and mainframes on Nostromo in Alien make an array of beeping, whirring and other less identifiable noises, including sounding something akin to a dot matrix printer. | |
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Team Fortress 2. Go inside any of the bases, and just try and think about anything other than, "Damn, those computers are really loud." 2Fort is the main offender, where the random beeping at times shares the same beeping sound effect that sentry turrets makes. | |
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Blade Runner: Due to an interesting combination of zeerust and a Used Future aesthetic, the instrument Deckard uses to analyse the photographs he found makes an alarming cacophony of both electronic beeps and physical clicks and whirs, suggesting it's both computerized and mechanical. | |
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Doctor Who: "Time Crash": The TARDIS beeps when Ten flips the monitor around to show Five the exact size of the hole in the time-space continuum that would happen if they don't separate their TARDISes. Ten is having a picnic with Elizabeth I when his handheld device starts making loud whirring and chirping noises. When asked incredulously what it was, the Doctor's first answer was "It's a device that goes 'ding!'". "The Bells of St John": Alexei's computer starts sounding an alarm when a brain upload has halted, and makes a whistling noise when the progress bar starts reversing. That's not discounting the actual beeps and boops it makes when he and the Doctor have a hacker duel. |
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The ship's computer in Dark Star makes beeping sounds when displaying information on the screen. | |
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Blake's 7: Zen makes a variety of humming noises and the occasional "plonk"; Orac makes a particularly irritating set of high-pitched beeps against a background of warbling whining noises. | |
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The abominably user-friendly computers of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy are designed by expert teams of social psychologists and sales executives to provide the most fulfilling possible computer-use experience to you, the customer, whether you like it or not. Beep beep beep. | |
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Casino Royale (2006) is replete with computers that beep, click, and chirp as the characters go about saving and destroying the world. In one instance, James Bond is looking at a map on a computer, and every time he zooms in, the computer beeps then chirps. | |
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Out of this World (1962): "Little Lost Robot": The gallery, from where the characters conduct the experiment, has tape reels, buttons and levers, as well as whirring and flashing lights, which shows how complicated the machinery is in Hyperbase 7. | |
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Since Uplink is basically a Hollywood Hacking simulator, practically everything makes silly noises while the player is doing pretty much anything. The touch-tone IP dialling is especially prominent. | |
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Parodied in Spaceballs: the technician notices that the radar is not working because he's lost the beeps, the sweeps, and the creeps; and he demonstrates these noises. | |
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LazyTown: In "Defeeted", the Feet Crazer Maker 6000 is nearly always beeping. | |
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Lampshaded in the second Artemis Fowl book. When Foaly needs to use Artemis's laptop without anyone noticing, the first thing he does is mute the volume, noting that the Mud People would insist on making their computers beep at the most inconvenient times. | |
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In Kirby: Planet Robobot, Star Dream beeps while speaking. Its first battle theme also incorporates beeping as part of a song. | |
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Star Trek: The Next Generation: The LCARS interface chirps, beeps or bleeps every time it shows a new word, plots a planet in a star chart or changes a value in a number-filled spreadsheet. There is actually a point to this: Giving feedback to the user, since an absence of mechanical keys means you cannot "feel" anymore whether you actually pressed something. | |
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