How to recover from a Mac crash (magic number)

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From: David Sherman
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 1990 07:13

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This may have been on the net before (my reading of these
newsgroups is spotty), and I'm sure it's documented somewhere,
but here goes anyway.  Someone may find this useful.

Suppose your Mac hangs, for whatever reason (bugs in
software, they've been known to happen).  You want to
restart, but you'd love to save your work first, from some
application other than the one which crashed.  (Ain't MultiFinder
wonderful?)

Press the programmer's button, if you have it installed, and type
	G 409B24
and press return.  This gets you back to the Finder.  You can
then save your work and restart.  (If you don't restart, weird
things happen.)

I was first told this trick a couple of years ago and used it on
a Mac Plus, and I do it now on a IIci, so I guess it's pretty generic.

David Sherman
Toronto
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From: dave@lsuc.on.ca (David Sherman)
Subject: How to recover from a Mac crash (magic number)
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 90 02:13:25 EST
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