cwilson@NISC.SRI.COM (Chan Wilson) (09/28/89)
>ramblings about applefestiveness
]>[Gassee] also demontrated a hands-off
]>mouse - one of those headsets that you wear on your head and use a
]>blow switch as the mouse button. This has been around for a couple
]>years, though. [...]
]
]Ah, but Video Keyboard hasn't been around: it lets you use the mouse
]instead of the keyboard in any GS application that supports NDAs.
]
Hmm.. Good point. I wish they had that for the mac- there are times it
would be nice to toss the keyboard away for limited periods of time. :-)
]>Someone from Western Digital (I'm pretty sure it was Bill Mench (sp?)
]>asked him why Apple hasn't had more commitment towards faster 65816's.
]
]It was indeed Bill Mensch, and the name of his company is Western Design
]Center.
Does anybody know the truth behind the claims he made that he has
lots of 6-10mhz 65816 chips? And is this true?
]The newsletter you mentioned is called "II Technical". (I read most of
]one issue, and there's certainly some interesting stuff in there, not
]counting a couple of gratuitous insults thrown at Apple.)
Well, I saw the 'special Applefest edition' of The Road Apple, and my
general conclusion was that it was a 'paper flame.' Not much
intellectual content, lots of bitching and moaning.
]>Also, GS/OS 3.0 seems to have a few
]>random bugs, although this could be caused by my hard drive. (Old
]>datamac, SASI interface).
]
]"Random" bugs? Please be more specific.
Well, okay, they aren't quite random- I've been able to reproduce it. After
munging the installation process a couple of times, I got smart and used the
Installer (;-]) to install it onto the hard disk. So I double click on the
prodos icon when it's finished, and GS/OS loads just fine. "Fine and Dandy," I
say, and proceed to rename Prodos to Start.GS.OS so I boot into Prodos 8 on
startup. I accomplish this, and hit reset to verify that it works, and do a
-Start.GS.OS to bounce into GS/OS. I power down, power back up, and try to
enter GS/OS the same way. The thermometer fills up, and the machine is hung.
So, I hit reset, and try again. This time, it loads fine. I have to run
Start.GS.OS twice in order to get into GS/OS. When viewing the loading
proceedures (hitting esc as it loads) the first time it says "--In Pause
Mode! Hit Space to continue--" or somesuch similar. Space bar doesn't help,
though...
]
] --Dave Lyons, Apple Computer, Inc. | DAL Systems
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