BELL
An early system on the IBM 650 and Datatron 200 series.
Versions: BELL L2, BELL L3.
Bell
Bell Telephone
bell
Synonyms
beep
BEL
control-G
g-bell
ASCII 7, ASCII mnemonic "BEL", the character code which prodces a standard audibile warning from the computer or terminal. In the teletype days it really was a bell, since the advent of the VDU it is more likely to be a sound sample (e.g. the sound of a bell) played through a loudspeaker.
Also called "G-bell", because it is typed as Control-G.
The term "beep" is preferred among some microcomputer hobbyists.
Compare feep, visible bell.