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Article #21996Re: Disapearing Hard Drives on a Mac II
From: mckenzie
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1987 20:16
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1987 20:16
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In article <1155@saturn.ucsc.edu> fiatlux@ucscc.UCSC.EDU (David Vangerov) writes: >Someone called it the PRAM. I haven't dared try this with our mac >II yet, thought it would seem that all you have to do is remove >the battery for a second and then pop it back in if >Command-Shift-Option-Whatever doesn't do it for you. Of course >the battery on a Mac II is a little harder to get to than on a >standard Mac 512/Plus. This is somewhat of an understatement - the MacII battery is not only hard to get at, it is actually soldered to the system board! Messing with it is guaranteed to void your warranty, and might ruin your system board to boot. Opening the control panel while holding down every available modifier key really does work - I promise. (See also various messages from Apple staffers to this effect.) David McKenzie mckenzie@husc2.UUCP
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!husc2!mckenzie From: mckenzie@husc2.UUCP (mckenzie) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Disapearing Hard Drives on a Mac II Message-ID: <1343@husc2.UUCP> Date: Mon, 23-Nov-87 15:16:42 EST Article-I.D.: husc2.1343 Posted: Mon Nov 23 15:16:42 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 26-Nov-87 06:45:36 EST References: <1155@saturn.ucsc.edu> Reply-To: mckenzie@husc2.UUCP (david mckenzie) Organization: Harvard University Science Center Lines: 20 Keywords: MacII battery Summary: Don't mess with the battery!