Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!mit-eddie!bloom-beacon!eichin From: eichin@bloom-beacon.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: What the world needs now [ is an exploding computer ] Message-ID: <907@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> Date: Sat, 13-Jun-87 14:15:47 EDT Article-I.D.: bloom-be.907 Posted: Sat Jun 13 14:15:47 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Jun-87 23:52:52 EDT References: <1519@phred.UUCP> <140200001@tiger.UUCP> <181@picuxa.UUCP> Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Reply-To: eichin@athena.mit.edu (Mark W. Eichin) Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology Lines: 16 Summary: mac ][ buttons The Mac II (we just got ours this week, and we are REAL customers, not developers) has a real power off switch in the back. They warn against it in the documentation, mainly because you can lose work. The normal user will never need it, because the "SHUTDOWN" menu selection powers down the machine. Poof. Fans stop, everything. Really eerie the first time you try it... Turning it on is more odd. The "on" button is a key on the keyboard (which is harmless otherwise) that is monitored by a Lithium battery (expected to last 10 years, out living the computer's useful life.) Bug in early models: the resistor network values were wrong, and the Lithium cell would be dead in a few weeks. So the real problem was getting the computer to turn it self ON, not OFF. /Happy Hacking........\\.............Mark Eichin/