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From: bdugan@teri.bio.uci.edu (Bill Dugan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Brightness (6.0.7) ???
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Date: 17 Feb 91 09:59:41 GMT
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In article <6345@idunno.Princeton.EDU> bskendig@bird.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig) writes:
>>>   On the MAC CLASSIC only, it controls the sreen brightness.  BTW it will
>>>   not let you turn the screen so far down that you can't see it.
>
>Right.  To save money, Apple gave the Classic internal brighness
>control through software rather than having to worry about the dial.

Don't forget the Mac Portable!  It uses Brightness too.  Also in System 7.0,
it will work on all the Macs with grayscale or color displays.

>Huh?  I don't follow.  You mean to say that just because the memory
>expansion slot on the Classic is right behind a panel above the power
>switch, then it's really a slot for expansion cards and Apple lied to
>us?  I tend to believe Apple when they say that you can't put
>expansion cards or such in your Classic (without frying both the
>machine and the board).

But they already have announced expansion boards for the Classic....

bill