Re: remember the crappy

[rubywand@aol.com (RUBYWAND)]

In article <31D9526F.5762@vuw.ac.nz>, Gary Scott Elshaw
<gary.elshaw@vuw.ac.nz> writes:

>
>Do you remember the good old days when even if you did manage to get a
crappy
>control strip, it was still your crappy control strip.

for sure


>When i first got my computer, and i was completely computer illiterate,
>instead of
>today's pseudo-illiterate, the control strip came bundled with my
computer.
>It didn't do anything particularly amazing or anything, but it did almost
let
>me know
>when my battery was running low. And it did slow down my cpu...not to a
>crunching
>halt, but a haltering stagger.

That's the big problem with control strips.


>If anyone has a copy of this said redundent piece of low-tech, can they
>please send it to
>me because Apple it would seem is being too stingy in not replacing it
for
>me.
>

Typical. They're willing enough to hand out control strips when you buy a
machine; but, just request a replacement and they act like you're asking
for the moon.

     I checked my wares collection and couldn't find one. (Probably, it
would have been a II+ version.)  Perhaps someone else will still have
theirs. Which machine is the control strip for? 


Rubywand