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From: spike@world.std.com (Joe Ilacqua)
Newsgroups: alt.hackers
Subject: Re: why don't more people, er, *manufacturers*, do this?!
Message-ID: <1990Feb12.171208.29372@world.std.com>
Date: 12 Feb 90 17:12:08 GMT
References: <dogshit-0@pyrite.rutgers.edu>
Organization: Software Tool & Die
Lines: 18
Approved: Some one who knows

In article <dogshit-0@pyrite.rutgers.edu> hobbit@pyrite.rutgers.edu (*Hobbit*) writes:
<This machine even comes with a REAL hard-reset button, so I don't
>have to be forever powering it down and up again when it gets wedged.
<I cannot *imagine* why manufacturers of these things don't install
>these two features and similar ones.

	Many PC/XT/AT clone motherboards do have a hookup for a reset
switch.  It is usualy a pair of pins (like for a jumper) some where on
the front left of the motherboard.  If the machine is a 'Turbo'
(multi-speed) there may also be pins for a Turbo switch and for a LED
to indicate Turbo mode.

	Why do I know this?  I spent a summer assembling clones.  And
you thought they only did that in the Far East.

->Spike
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