How A Lawsuit Inspired Apple’s Most Iconic Sounds

A CNBC Make It video in which Jim Reekes, the creator of the Mac startup chime, tells how a trademark lawsuit with Apple Corps shaped some of Apple's best-known system sounds. It covers where the startup chord came from and the story behind its alert sounds.

HN people kept resubmitting it, and cite it as the source for the origin of the Mac startup chord.

“learned that the startup chord was inspired by the chord at the end of A Day In The Life from Sgt. Pepper's”