Re: Can you silent 'mute' sound?

["Peter Watson" <paw77@N_O_hotmail_S_P_A_M.com>]

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> On Feb 17, 4:56 pm, MarkW <mark...@RemoveNoSpamcomcast.net> wrote:
>> I am looking for a Apple IIe and probably will look on ebay but one
>> question I have, Is it possible to mute the internal speaker?  I
>> didn't know if there's a command from the keyboard or if this is even
>> possible?  I haven't used one of these since the early 80's.
>
> No, it is not possible through a keyboard command (unless the
> application you are using supports it)...
>
> If you want to kill the sound, unplug the speaker from the motherboard..
> or put a toggle switch inline.

Many people (including me) converted the alternate character set switch into 
a speaker on-off switch. It could be done easily with some stiff wire and it 
didn't even need soldering! (Although I think you needed a jumper on the 
pins that were connected to the char set switch.)
-- 
Peter Watson
-- Write to MS-DOS disks on the Apple IIgs?
-- Impossible!  ;-)