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Article #46347Re: Apple Extended Keyboard Pr
From: Brandon S. Allbery
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1990 00:44
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1990 00:44
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As quoted from <1615@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> by mjkobb@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Michael J Kobb):
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| In article <1142@ux.acs.umn.edu> clarson@ux.acs.umn.edu (Chaz Larson) writes:
| >i can attest to this. I've seen three Macintosh IIs blow their motherboards
| >because the user unplugged the mouse while the computer was powered up.
| >Always power down the machine before adding or removing ADB devices.
|
| Nice job, Apple. I find it kind of inexcusable that they don't have a warning
| in huge letters somewhere obvious in the documentation for ADB machines. I
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Not in huge letters, but it's on page 10 of the SE owner's manual in the
"Keyboard and mouse" section.
Perhaps Apple's failing was making a machine so easy to use that even fewer
people than usual bother to actually *read* the manual!
++Brandon
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!cwjcc!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Apple Extended Keyboard Pr Message-ID: <1990Feb16.004443.16657@NCoast.ORG> Date: 16 Feb 90 00:44:43 GMT References: <41132.25D6F2C7@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG> <1142@ux.acs.umn.edu> <1615@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery) Followup-To: comp.sys.mac Organization: North Coast Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, OH Lines: 21