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From: ostroff@oswego.Oswego.EDU (Boyd Ostroff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Blinking Apple
Message-ID: <895@oswego.Oswego.EDU>
Date: 30 Jul 88 18:54:50 GMT
References: <806@trwspf.TRW.COM>
Reply-To: ostroff@oswego.oswego.edu.UUCP (Boyd Ostroff)
Organization: SUNY Oswego
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In article <806@trwspf.TRW.COM> photo@trwspf.UUCP (Brian Girvin) writes:
>...I saw the apple in the menu bar blinking from
>regular to inverse with a black box around it.  It blinks once a second.
>What does this mean????  Is it from the System or is it from some software 

In my experience, this is always caused by someone setting the ALARM CLOCK 
Desk Accessory.  It seems that at any given moment about 50% of the Macs
in the labs here have blinking apples.  It can be confusing, since the system
floppy currently in use may not have the Alarm Clock DA on it, and therefore
can't turn the alarm off (the clock settings are held in the battery-backed
parameter RAM and stay in effect until changed).

Solution: get a disk with the Alarm Clock DA on it, and shut off the alarm!

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