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Re: Memory Expansion in IIcx: What gives?

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From: Jeanne A. E. DeVoto
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 1989 23:11
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In article <462@sjs.sj.ate.slb.com> ahsanullah@sjs.sj.ate.slb.com writes:
>[...]         I noticed the following:  Used to be in the 
>memory-less days (when it had 1MB), the drawing on the 'Welcome to Macintosh' 
>would appear in color.  Now, it comes up in BW, although all color functions 
>are 100% afterwards.

This problem is (I think) the result of a minor messup in the PRAM settings.
To fix it, use the Monitors control panel device to set the number of colors
to 2, then set it back to 256 (or whatever number of colors you're using).
Thereafter, the startup screen should resume appearing in color.

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From: jdevoto@Apple.COM (Jeanne A. E. DeVoto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Memory Expansion in IIcx: What gives?
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Date: 27 Jun 89 23:11:11 GMT
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