beep

[jte]

I often remember control-G on the Apple ][. My dad was quite fond of including it in programs. A funny character that was a sound instead of a glyph: synaesthetic circuitry, a category-defying leap within ASCII (yet also just “one of the gang of 32” before the emptiness of space).

Some little dongles I’ve pondered include
- a little beeper (a few basic tones?),
- a bluetooth HID receiver / transmitter (for, e.g., to send command-line output from a Prime to a nearby computer), and
- a GPS receiver (this could allow accurate time to be kept).

Perhaps a combodongle could do more than just one of these things?