gillies@uiucdcsp.cs.uiuc.edu (06/12/88)
It is very easy to turn on a Mac II automatically. All it takes is
some hardware hacking and a book on ADB (Apple Desktop Bus) devices,
and a few weekends of spare time.
You see, ADB must have power all the time. Otherwise, how could you
hit the *on* switch on your keyboard to start the machine? All we
need is a $5 box with a CMOS microprocessor, daisy-chained on the ADB
bus, which sleeps until the appropriate moment, then does what the
keyboard does. You could program the microcontroller by sending ADB
signals.
I've been nursing this idea for many months, but it sounds like
everyone else is thinking the same thing. Are there any entrepreneurs
out there on the net? I'm too lazy to get it to work.
Don Gillies {ihnp4!uiucdcs!gillies} U of Illinois
{gillies@cs.uiuc.edu}