Re: RESET lore (was: Re: What is 'Encoder Bd Apple II' ????)

[be946@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Simon C.Hall)]

Paul Guertin (guertinp@IRO.UMontreal.CA) writes:
> dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff) writes:
>>In my ][e, I made a little keyboard modification...cut an hourglass jumper
>>and solder across a diamond jumper...which does the same thing to that
>>machine.  It's really nice to be able to reset with one finger, and
>>re-boot with two.  
> 
> I should to this to my IIes, too. Since the RESET key is, as Jim Sather 
> puts it, "recessed and separated from the rest of the keys (solitary 
> confinement for crimes committed in the late 1970s)", the ctrl protection 
> is really unnecessary.
> 
>>In fact, I've been known to use SA-RESET-RESET to
>>reboot when the OA and RESET keys were just too far apart for my free hand...
> 
> I just tried, and I can't do OA-RESET with one hand, either. I could
> probably do it in a week, if I let my nails grow.
> 
> Wasn't it in an old Beagle Brothers catalog that someone mentioned a
> pianist with hands to big he could do a ctrl-RESET with one hand?
> 
>>(can you tell that my favorite key on the ][e is RESET?  Especially when
>>running Apple Writer ][e, since RESET will always send you back to the
>>editor, even when you do something stupid, like try to print to a
>>non-existent printer...)
> 
> I never could fathom why the designers of Appleworks didn't make it
> reset-proof.
> 
> My two IIes have different RESET keys. My old one (American keyboard,
> white letters on beige keys) has the top of the RESET key flush with
> the case. The new one (French-Canadian keyboard, black letters on
> beige keys) has the RESET key protruding about 2 mm.
> 
> Paul Guertin
> guertinp@iro.umontreal.ca


I got one of those black BELL&HOWELL That some broke the reset key off..(:

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jim aka simon hall