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From: klm@munsell.UUCP (Kevin McBride)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: What the world needs now [ is an exploding computer ]
Message-ID: <1096@knopfler.munsell.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 26-Jun-87 14:11:42 EDT
Article-I.D.: knopfler.1096
Posted: Fri Jun 26 14:11:42 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 27-Jun-87 11:43:31 EDT
References: <1519@phred.UUCP> <140200001@tiger.UUCP>
Reply-To: klm@knopfler.UUCP (Kevin McBride)
Organization: Eikonix Corp., Bedford, MA
Lines: 37
Keywords: soft power switches

In article <8774@tekecs.TEK.COM> snoopy@doghouse.gwd.tek.com (Snoopy) writes:
>In article <1089@knopfler.munsell.UUCP> klm@knopfler.UUCP (Kevin McBride) writes:
>>...
>>(halt machine)
>>Do you really want to power down the 3670?  yes
>
>>(screen goes blank as circuit breaker trips.)
>
>What's even more entertaining is to see a "Please turn power on"
>message!  I've been tempted to hack login(1) to accept Morse code
>from the power switch.  :-)

Well, we also had one of the older style Symbolics 3600s.  It did ask you
if you wanted to power up!!

There was a little LED display on the front of the box next to the main
power key and the reset button, "Yes" button(!), etc.

When you turned on the cabinet power with the key, the LEDs would display

Power up?

The system would do nothing more until you pressed the "Yes" button.
When you did, the LEDs displayed

Yes, Master.

Whereupon the disk would spin up, the system would reset and start Lisping
away.

I'm not kidding.  This is for real!  Definitely the most mind blowing
feature I've ever seen on a computer.
-- 
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