[SunRescue] OBP coolness

[Gil Young]

I -hate- those buttons, I had a bad one once on a piece of equipment, it
would for no reason, shut down whenever.  Very annoying and 2 months of
debug and part swaps later, the problem was the touchy button that would
make it go into shutdown mode as the temperature changed or gamma rays
bombarded it at the right angles.

The first commonly available machie to the masses that could do that that I
know of is the mac, from it's keyboard "shutdown" button.  A mac with the
smart power supplies would power off and up from that button as well.  No
reaching for switches, etc..

Gil Young
Call Sign: KG4KVX
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----- Original Message -----
From: <dave at cca.org>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 5:25 PM
Subject: Re: [SunRescue] OBP coolness


> mrbill at mrbill.net writes:
>
> >I remember the first time I ran across a machine that could turn off its
> >own power (was some ATX-formfactor PC).
>
> I really like "soft off" buttons. Press the button, it does a proper
> shutdown and powers off. Awesome.
>
> The Lisa & the 3B2 had that, in the early 80s. I didn't see it
> again untill the RS/6000.
>
> -- david fischer -- dave at cca.org -- www.cca.org -- Cthulhu told me to. --
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