Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!maytag!aftermath!water!ljdickey
From: ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (L.J.Dickey)
Subject: Re: Hold that computer...
Message-ID: <1990Jul6.205115.24379@water.waterloo.edu>
Organization: University of Waterloo
References: <1990Jul6.030726.24719@wolves.uucp>
Date: Fri, 6 Jul 90 20:51:15 GMT
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In article <1990Jul6.030726.24719@wolves.uucp> brian@wolves.uucp (Brian Daniels) writes:

> How does one go about constructing a circuit that will hold off
> the 1040ST until the hard drive gets up to speed?
> (other than the listen and then flip switch interface  :-)

There is a product called Baby Duck or some similar that does
just this.  But the guy who built these things got tired of it,
I guess, and designed a software product that does the same thing.

The program is called "duck31" by Larry Rymal.  As it comes, off the
shelf, it is designed to boot off a floppy, wait 15 seconds, and then
issue a command to do a cold boot.  By that time, your hard drive might
be up to speed.  The time delay is settable.  You can get it from
the server "terminator".

	Binaries/volume09:        14867 Apr 13 13:39 duck31.Z
	diskutils:                11823 Mar 24 18:24 duck31.arc