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From: rjb1@GTE.COM (Richard J. Brandau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Keyboard Light Sequencer [Not on IIci!]
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Date: 16 Mar 90 00:18:43 GMT
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long@mcntsh.enet.dec.com (Rich Long) writes:
>In article <1990Mar14.043421.5856@athena.mit.edu>, rrkasegu@athena.mit.edu (Rick R. Kaseguma) writes...
>>Announcing Key Lights - The Keyboard Light Sequencer

>>Key Lights is a CDEV which makes the Num Lock, Caps Lock, and Scroll Lock
>>lights on an Apple Extended Keyboard sequence in a back and fourth motion.

>This sounds neat--I'm really looking forward to it.  One thing I would love to
>see, though, is a screen saver that would do what Key Lights does only when
>the screen is blanked (just like my DEC workstation).  

Yeah, well, you better not have a IIci; keylights causes the poor
beast to crash on startup -- but not until after the keylights init
does its thing -- with the interesting result of the Mac being dead in
the water while the key lights merrily sequence.  An impressive use of
whatever processor lives in that keyboard, I guess.

Perhaps if we can shame Kaseguma into posting the source code, we
could patch whatever ails it on the IIci, and turn it into a Darkness
document for your screensaver idea.