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From: gillies@uiucdcsp.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: macii programmers button
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Date: 3 Feb 88 03:18:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uiucdcsp.cs.uiuc.edu!gillies    Feb  2 21:18:00 1988


This is a very good question for the new newsgroup comp.sys.mac.programmer.
How to install a programmer's button:

On every machine EXCEPT for the Mac II, the programmer's button goes
on the LEFT side, in the back, near the base.  Get a flashlight and
look into the ventillation slots of your machine.  You should see two
buttons between the louvres.  This is where the programmer's button
goes (on top of the buttons).

On the Macintosh II, the programmer's button goes on the RIGHT side of
the machine, in the back, at the base.  I found it with a flashlight.

The button near the front of the machine is REBOOT, at least on the
Mac II.  The button near the rear of the machine is DEBUG.  You can
probably test this with a penpoint.  Anyway, install your switches so
that the button labels match the appropriate buttons.

It is IDIOTIC POLICY not to document this in the macintosh user's
guide.  I have never seen a machine WITHOUT these buttons installed.
Apple is dreaming if they think they're doing someone a service!
Every macintosh owner installs this button.  In a macintosh lab, if
need be, the system administrator can avoid installing the buttons!

This oversight is as serious as not documenting the PRAM.  If Apple
would only write SOMETHING about these trouble spots in their manual,
maybe the traffic on comp.sys.mac would decrease by 50%!

Don Gillies {ihnp4!uiucdcs!gillies} U of Illinois
            {gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu}