Sleep Desk Accessory

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3 total messages Started by Walter Smith Fri, 21 Dec 1984 10:23

#210

Author: Walter Smith
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 1984 10:23

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>Enough flaming, we have real impoortant stuff to talk about.  So, any one have
>good ideas for some fun desk accessories???

I have written a useful desk accessory that can also be fun.  It is called
"Sleep".  People like me who like to leave their Macs on for months at a time
sometimes get tired of turning the brightness control down to prevent the
display from being burned in (it's hard to reach behind the keyboard).  This
accessory solves the problem by totally blacking out the screen (except for
an apple bouncing about) until the mouse is clicked and the screen is
restored.

The fun part is not having well-meaning Mac borrowers turn your Mac OFF, not
realizing that it is already ON with zero brightness.  It's also interesting
that people keep asking "what the hell is your Mac doing?".

I've posted a fromhex version of the installer program to net.sources.  By
the way, I'm a starving college student, and all donations will be gratefully
accepted (how's that for low pressure?).

-- 
      Walter Smith, CS undergraduate, Carnegie-Mellon University
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usps: Box 874; 5115 Margaret Morrison St.; Pittsburgh, PA  15213

Any opinions contained in the above could very well be so different from
those of CMU itself that it would be ludicrous to compare the two.

Re: Sleep Desk Accessory

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Author: Jeff Mattson
Date: Sat, 22 Dec 1984 18:32

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It is impossible to have the SumMac Desk Accessarries "Sleep" and "Calendar" 
(the one that lets you keep appointments) in the same system file.  When I 
try to use Calendar, the round-edged rectangle and its title bar come up fine,
but then it just freezes, and I have to use the programmers' switch to reset 
the machine.  Sleep, however, seems to work all right.  Removing Sleep
removes the problem.  Is there anything I can do to fix this problem?  I'd
like to be able to run Sleep and Calendar simultaneously.  Thanx.

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		        Good night and Good news.
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			      Jeff Mattson
			    JMattson@BBNCCA
			  24 Westland Ave. #10
			    Boston, MA 02115

Another 512k upgrade kit

#669

Author: Neil J. O'Neill
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 1985 05:45

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Went to the Macworld Exposition in S.F. today and bought an upgrade kit for
$250 (sorry, but that was a special show price, normal price is $350).
The kit was made by:

	Micro Conversions
	3606 Knoll Crest Dr.
	Arlington, TX 76014
	(817) 465-5758

It contains:

	Torx screwdriver
	Small wire cutters
	IC insertion tool
	Very pointy tweezers
	X-Acto knife
	3 rolls of desoldering braid
	A very good set of instructions
	74F253 multiplexer
	17 256k RAMs (1 spare )
	17 Low profile sockets
	1 minature PC board for "Old Style" motherboards
	Resistors and capacitor for multiplexing circuit

As you see, it is a very complete kit.  All you need to add is solder, a
soldering iron, and a few (3 to 4) hours of your time.  I was very careful
and was rewarded by having my Mac test out OK on the first power-up.

The minature PC board mentioned above allows for a very clean upgrade on
an "Old" Mac.  It solders into the 7 holes right next to the 68000, and
there are none of the unsightly jumper wires like those used in the upgrade
shown in Dr. Dobbs Journal.

A 512k Mac with a RamDisk turns out to be THE fix for MacTerminal's 
whiring disk annoyance (among other things).

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