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From: syap@ur-tut.UUCP (James Fitzwilliam)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Blinking Apple Menu
Message-ID: <227@ur-tut.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 8-Oct-87 20:02:35 EDT
Article-I.D.: ur-tut.227
Posted: Thu Oct  8 20:02:35 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 13-Oct-87 06:26:59 EDT
References: <1076@houtz.UUCP>
Reply-To: syap@tut.cc.rochester.edu (James Fitzwilliam)
Organization: Gadgetland USA
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Keywords: Mac

In article <1076@houtz.UUCP> mlr@houtz.UUCP (M.ROBINS) writes:
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>Well----- I am also running a Mac+ and I just started to see the
>Apple menu blink. So--- I checked to see if I had my alarm clock
>set. Guess what----- I don't even have an alarm clock DA installed.
>Does anyone know what this really is??? (Is the battery going??)

Let me assume you mean "don't have [the DA] installed _on_that_disk_."
The alarm clock setting seems to be one of those things that the Mac
keeps in its little battery vault between uptimes. So if you leave the
DA set for say, 7:30 PM on one disk, shut off the machine, then power
up at 8:07 PM with another disk, the alarm will "go off" DA or no DA.

Ironically enough I only figured this out for sure a little while ago
when this happened to me on HyperCard, practically the only disk I
_don't_ have Alarm Clock installed on!			(-:

Even if you have the DA nowhere, someone else may have unknowingly set
your alarm, or if you have a new Mac it may have even come that way
from the factory. (You never know).

						JMF

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