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Re: Recovering ROM monitor password

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From: Jim De Arras
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 18:09
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In article <1992Oct8.235240.10062@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> coco@cbnewsl.cb.att.com  
(felix.lugo) writes:
> In article <5357@rosie.NeXT.COM> amm@NeXT.COM (Alan M. Marcum) writes:
> >Someone asked about eliminating the hardware password.  One
> >proposal put forward was to reverse the battery for a few
> >seconds.  This elicited the following response:
> >
> >--
> >Alan M. Marcum
> >NeXT Tech Support
> >amm@NeXT.COM
> >
> >Private P.S. to P.C.: thanks.
> 
> 	Who else missed the 8^) in my previous posting?  Has this symbol,
> or its many incantations, ceased to convey "not seriously speaking"?  I'm
> sorry if I insulted some of you by composing such a message.  Seems like
> they've lost all sense of humor (probably as a result of 3.0)!
> 
> --Felix
> 
> Private P.S. to A.M.M. and P.C.: G.F.Y.

I did not miss it.  I read it as not as the standard smiley, :-), but as a  
wide-eyed astonishment look.  In any event, I saw it as merely countering the  
claim of 'show me where it says that', and in a matter so grave as blowing up a  
motherboard, I felt it better to err on the side of caution, and repeat myself.

Jim
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