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

[guertinp@IRO.UMontreal.CA (Paul Guertin)]

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