Re: Apple ][ Europlus - power supply problem...

["Sean Fahey" <sean.fahey@a2central.com.remove-az4-this>]

  To: bieling@terra.es
  Re: Re: Apple ][ Europlus - power supply problem...
  By: bieling@terra.es to comp.sys.apple2 on Fri Mar 09 2007 07:59 am

 > People were complaining that it was too easy to hit RESET by accident,
 > as it was so close to, right above the RETURN key. Then Apple fitted a
 > spring under the RESET key so that you needed to push it much harder
 > to RESET. Still later on, the keyboard circuit was modified so as to
 > require pressing (by flipping that switch to CNTR) control at the same
 > time as RESET in order to reset. Also, in the first Apple IIs the
 > power light looked like a key, and people often tried to turn the
 > Apple II on and off pushing hard on the power light... hehehe
 > 

I bought one of those flip-key covers... you had to "flip" to cover off to hit
the reset switch, kind of like to safety cover on a fighter control stick. I
wish I still had one of those. I still hit the reset by mistake.

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