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  1.                 From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 January 2023):
                    

    bell beep BEL control-G g-bell

    <character> 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.

    (1997-04-08)