Re: 3-finger salute (was Re: Vulcan HD replacement)

[dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff)]

Randy Shackelford (shack@deimos.frii.com) wrote:

(referring to the Apple-Reset)
: It's a hardware thing on Macs, and isn't that recent. My Quadra 840av,
: introduced in '93, has it. Older boxes have the doink button, as I refer
: to it, and you still use it even with new OS versions.

The Quadra 660AVs here at Capital did not have Apple-Reset until we
upgraded to MacOS 7.5...under 7.0, the key sequence did nothing.  Another
addition to 7.5 was the ability to use that button we GS folks call RESET
to initiate the shut-down sequence ("Are you sure you want to shut down
your computer?")...prior to 7.5, that button would power up machines
equipped with soft-power, but only "Special-->Shut Down" would turn them off.

Interesting.  When MacOS 7.0 was introduced, I noticed that a bunch of
features from Lisa Office System 7/7 that had been dumped when the
Macintosh was introduced suddenly reappeared ("stationery", for instance).
Now, under 7.5, the Macintosh mimics the operation of the Lisa's power
button.  See?  Lisa wasn't a bad system, it was just too damned expensive...

--Dave Althoff, Jr.
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