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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Apple Extended Keyboard Pr
Message-ID: <1990Feb16.004443.16657@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 16 Feb 90 00:44:43 GMT
References: <41132.25D6F2C7@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG> <1142@ux.acs.umn.edu> <1615@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
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As quoted from <1615@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> by mjkobb@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Michael J Kobb):
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| In article <1142@ux.acs.umn.edu> clarson@ux.acs.umn.edu (Chaz Larson) writes:
| >i can attest to this.  I've seen three Macintosh IIs blow their motherboards
| >because the user unplugged the mouse while the computer was powered up.
| >Always power down the machine before adding or removing ADB devices.
| 
| Nice job, Apple.  I find it kind of inexcusable that they don't have a warning
| in huge letters somewhere obvious in the documentation for ADB machines.  I
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Not in huge letters, but it's on page 10 of the SE owner's manual in the
"Keyboard and mouse" section.

Perhaps Apple's failing was making a machine so easy to use that even fewer
people than usual bother to actually *read* the manual!

++Brandon
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