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From: tj@kona.cs.ucla.edu (Tom Johnson)
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Subject: Re: Software controlled screen brightness on Mac Classic <-Need info
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Date: 30 Oct 90 01:34:20 GMT
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In article <10195@milton.u.washington.edu> busey@blake.u.washington.edu (Thomas Busey) writes:
>A recent spec sheet indicated that the Mac Classic's screen brightness
>is software controlled via the Control Panel.  Does anyone have more 

Yet another new thing with these new machines that I don't like! :->
The brightness can only be controlled by the Brightnes cdev.  It cannot
be set to completely black Otherwise, how would you ever set it back?
Hunt around the screen, clicking randomly until you happen to click on
the cdev's slider control? And the value you select is not stored
on restart.  It appears to be reset to some median value, which, of course
is not what you would have picked, if given the choice.            

Somethimes we pay a terrible price for innovation (like usefullness).

Tom

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