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From: mjkobb@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Michael J Kobb)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Mac II reset switches????
Summary: Thanks everybody!
Message-ID: <1999@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Date: 28 Mar 90 01:31:31 GMT
References: <1956@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> <1990Mar27.081726.15740@nixter.UUCP>
Reply-To: mjkobb@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Michael J Kobb)
Organization: MIT Media Lab, Cambridge MA
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In article <1990Mar27.081726.15740@nixter.UUCP> dumais@nixter.UUCP (Paul E. Dumais) writes:

>Mike, you could install the ProgrammersKey init in your System Folder. This init
>will allow you to reset or shutdown your Mac from the keyboard. MacsBug might
>be good if you are crashing alot.
>Worst case scenerio, I'll send you a reset switch for your MacII. Let me know.


  Thanks very much to Paul and everybody else who replied to my question.  A
number of people suggested the ProgrammersKey init, but I'm not sure I want to
have that rather than the actual switch, since when the Mac is crashing, it's
going down bigtime (freezes MacsBug, even).  I'm not sure how well an init is
going to work in this state.  Furthermore, on my IIx, I have the DataDesk 101
keyboard, which doesn't have the powerup key (it's got a button, but I
understand that it has no keycode).  I got the init anyway, and I'll probably
use it on the Mac at work, and maybe on mine if I switch to the Apple
keyboard, but I wanted the switch, too.

  In that respect, I'm set, too, because I found a dealer who had one lying
around.  He just gave it to me.  I guess the moral is:  ask a bunch of
dealers, until you find one who's got more of these things than he wants.

--Mike