Re: System 7.0

Jolly Roger <jollyroger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Yeah, we learned the hard way, too, when the Macs would take forever to
finish booting up when the resistor wasn't there.

Yes! Exactly! You have a good memory. : )

Oh, there's no way I could possibly forget, because by "the hard way" I
meant as part of something else that happened at the time. You see,
every last one of us in that lab were new to LocalTalk networks. The
only people who had Macs at home at the time had just the one Mac
connected to an ImageWriter or no printer at all. We knew the delay at
bootup was network-related but we didn't know it wasn't supposed to be
that way. We just accepted it as normal.

Well, someone from the computer department of the campus bookstore came
buy with some software that had been back ordered, and he offered to
install it. The Mac it was going on hadn't been turned on yet that day,
so he's the one who noticed how long the bootup took. He told our lab
director there was something wrong with it and he needed to take it back
with him for diagnosis and repair. For some reason our lab director, who
knew that all three Macs had the same bootup time and that it was
network-related, for some reason let this bozo take it away. I wasn't
there at the time, but I sure wish I was to have been able to stop that
guy.

IIRC, there were other little glitches that it caused as well, though
it's been too long for me to remember the details.

We never got to find out anything else.

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