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  1. We had this and removed it on Panicking In Morse Code · · Score: 1
    As to the question of flashing the LED because Morse on the speaker might be too annoying, I say go for the speaker.
    I had a morse code panic procedure in the Native Oberon kernel a couple of years ago, but removed it again because few people realized it was actually sending useful information, and not just beeping randomly. In only one case someone mailed me the trap info from the morse output. He was a radio ham and immediately recognized the code.

    One time at Stellenbosch University more than 100 PCs in big student lab trapped simultaneously due to a TCP/IP stack problem. It's incredible what a racket that can generate...

    -- Pieter