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OK, here's how I removed JClock from the System on my Mac Plus' hard disk.
About six or seven people mailed me the instructions, which mesh together
something like this (a couple of other people wanted me to post this):

Put ResEdit, a System, and a Finder on a floppy disk and boot up the Mac
with it.  (Running ResEdit on the hard disk won't cut it... it won't let
you update the Sytem its using.)  Open the hard disk's System file and then
open the INIT resources.  Select the JClock resource (it was ID=4 on my
system) and cut it out (or clear it out).  Close the INITs and the System
and quit ResEdit.  You must confirm that you want to update the System file.
Once you reboot the system with the hard disk, JClock will be gone.  (Yay!
No more screw-ups with Switcher, which was my problem in the first place.)

David Phillip Oster (oster%lapis.Berkeley.EDU@BERKELEY.EDU) also wrote me
and said that Menu Clock, which he wrote, displays just a flashing colon
instead of seconds and doesn't mess up in Switcher.  Its installer program
also has a "remove the clock" option which JClock doesn't have.  I've learned
that JClock can be temporarily turned off, though, by moving the pointer up
to where the clock is and holding in the mouse button for a couple of seconds.


As for the MacPaint picture being the Finder's backdrop:  I posted my question
before completely reading my copy of the April Macworld.  Lo and behold,
there's an article in it that mentions a product that does what I need (as a 
couple of people informed me in email).  It's called DeskScene, available
from Alsoft, if I remember correctly.  There's also a couple of public 
domain programs available, one of which is called StartupDesk.  I'm going
to try to find a copy of that.  Apparently the technique for doing this is
similar... it uses an INIT resource.

Thanks for all the mail, folks.

John O'Malley
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