Re: Changing screen colors on PowerMac 5200/5300

Bruce Carter (bcarter@mentor.idbsu.edu)
Sun, 14 Jan 1996 13:38:28 EST

At 12:46 AM 1/12/96, TyAnn Morehead wrote:
>A while back Jim Tobin from Apple offered a solution to that pesky problem:
>If there are any characters other than the > delete them, type "G" (for go)
>and press return. I don't remember all of the details of Jim's explanation,
>but it had something to do with the power-on and command keys invoking a
>debugger.

Command-Option-PowerKey on some Mac systems drops you into the debugger
(generates an interrupt). Command-Control-PowerKey on some Mac systems
initiates a restart. These soft functions replaced buttons that served the
same function on some systems. They are useful, but they can be trouble if
you don't mean to activate their functions.

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