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From: mr2t+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Tod Rose)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Rumor
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Date: 26 Feb 91 04:41:15 GMT
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dawg6844@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (<blank>) writes:

>barek@lake.scar.toronto.edu (William Barek) writes:
> 
> 
>> Just today I have heard a rumor that new Classic has a system startup
>> in ROM. If you press a certain key it will boot up without  a disk.
>> ???  I guess just a rumor, isn't it ??
> 
> 
>No, this is correct.  You need to hold down a certain set of special keys
>on startup.  Shift-Command.
>(or was that Option-Command?)
>(Shift-Option-Command?)
>(Shift-Option-Mouse Button?)
>(Command-Shift-Option-Mouse Button???)
> 
>well anywa, it DOES work, you just have to figure out which keys.

Command, Option, X, O (that's "oh", not "zero"). All four, held down
from power on to Finder. Apple's code name for the Classic was the Mac
XO, so this makes a certain kind of sense.

Unfortunately, I believe the ROM-wired system is 6.0.6, which implies
that whateve major bugs forced the 6.0.7 release are still running free.

-mike

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