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Re: Can a GS start up by just pressing the reset key?



lstrand@clyde.ics.uci.edu (Leif Strand) writes:
> In article <a73Tyc4w165w@railnet.nshore.org>,
> Adam Barr <barr@railnet.nshore.org> wrote:
> >Is there a way to make a  GS start up by pressing the reset key?
> 
> There is (or used to be) a product for the Mac called "Power Key" (I think)
> that is essentially a strip of switched AC outlets that you connect to the
> keyboard via an ADB cable.  By plugging your monitor and CPU into this strip,
> you can then power up using the reset key.  Power Key was intended for those
> few Macs (such as the LC) that, like the GS, do not have the keyboard-power
> function.  I see no reason why it couldn't work with the GS, although I
> remember it as being slightly expensive.

I tried this once.  It didn't work.  Which means that either it is 
incompatible, or I was doing something wrong.  I still have the 
PowerKey.  If someone else out there has gotten it to work, I'd love to 
know about it.

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