plocher@puff.wisc.edu (John Plocher) (11/01/86)
>I have been following the discussion about the 3b2's which switch their own >power on and off via software-controlled relays or triacs. (Did anyone in >netland ever see the Apple Lisas that also did this? ... And when you had a software bug and got stuck in a loop with interupts disabled (The on/off switch generated an interupt...) you couldn't reboot the machine. If you unplugged the Lisa, you stood a large ( >> 50%) chance of trashing your hard disk... What to do? Apple SOON added a hardware reset button! -- "Never trust an idea you get sitting down" - Nietzche ------------ {harvard,seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!uwhsms!plocher (work) John Plocher {harvard,seismo}!uwvax!puff!plocher (school) ------------ decvax!encore!vaxine!spark!121!0!John_Plocher (FidoNet)