Re: Your first A2.

["Mark Cummings" <NOTfigjams@primus.com.au>]

On my first Apple II EuroPlus, I modified the flat white power light so that
it was actually a CAPS Lock key, and it doubled up as a power-on light. This
mod was also done with the lower-case mod.

Mark


Wayne Stewart <waynes@intergate.ca> wrote in message
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> Mark Percival wrote
>
> > I had heard that the original power light indicator on the original
> > II's caused a number of problems.  Apparently there were quite a few
> > people that thought the light was the power switch and would snap it
> > off pressing too hard.  Thus the 1979 switch to the flat white square
> > indicator.
>
> The person that sold me my first II+ told me the square white power switch
> on the keyboard was defective and I'd have to use the other switch on the
> rear!!!!
>
> Wayne