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From: ali@rocky.STANFORD.EDU (Ali Ozer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Blinking Apple Menu
Message-ID: <651@rocky.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: Sat, 10-Oct-87 11:51:41 EDT
Article-I.D.: rocky.651
Posted: Sat Oct 10 11:51:41 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 12-Oct-87 06:40:52 EDT
References: <2396@sphinx.uchicago.edu>
Reply-To: ali@rocky.UUCP (Ali Ozer)
Organization: Stanford University Computer Science Department
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In article <2396@sphinx.uchicago.edu> Howard Charles Nusbaum writes:
>A couple of individuals pointed out that the information
>regarding the blinking Apple is in the Owner's guide.  In 
>defense of my dumb question, and for the sake of greater tolerance
>everywhere, let me add the following:  I did indeed read the
>documentation accompanying the Mac when I first bought it over a year ago.

Sure. That's what they all say. "Oh, I didn't read MY owner's manual."
Or "oh I lost MY owner's manual." Come on, admit it ---  You went and copied
your friend's Mac, didn't you? That's why you don't have an owner's manual.

Kidding aside, yes, the blinking apple menu got me too, a few months back.
(I never read the Mac owner's manual, mainly because I never saw one.)
After half an hour of blinking apple, I got so annoyed (and my program
was giving me a headache) that I simply swapped the blinking
apple Mac with the next one (this was in a microcomputer lab... I could've
gone to another Mac, I guess, but I wanted to keep on using that 
particular HD.) Next day when I came in the apple had stopped blinking and
I never found out why it had started in the first place. 

Anyway, seems like a dialog box that has the three options

   [OK]     [Snooze 10 minutes]     [Throw Mac across the room]

might've been better. Or (better yet, more drastic, and guaranteed to
get your attention), the screen shifts down 30%, and the top section
starts flashing, in red and black, a box with the words "ALARM", oops, wrong
machine.

Ali Ozer, ali@rocky.stanford.edu