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Re: Can a GS start up by just pressing the reset key?
- Subject: Re: Can a GS start up by just pressing the reset key?
- From: lacoss@cello.gina.calstate.edu (Greg R. Achenbach)
- Date: 13 Jan 1995 13:04:15 -0800
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: GINA and CORE+ Services of The California State University
- References: <3f65eq$gk0@clyde.ics.uci.edu>
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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