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From: clubmac@runx.ips.oz (Macintosh Users Group)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mac II StartupSceeen is B&W (should be color)
Message-ID: <1639@runx.ips.oz>
Date: 5 Jul 88 14:59:57 GMT
References: <118@pbseps.UUCP>
Reply-To: clubmac@runx.OZ (Australia's Largest Mac Users Group)
Organization: Club Mac. Sydney, Australia.
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In article <118@pbseps.UUCP> rdp@pbseps.PacBell.COM (Richard Perlman) writes:
>
>In article <116@pbseps.UUCP> ** I ** wrote:
>> On my Mac II the startup screen used to appear in color.  That is
>> the default startup picture with the little mac sketch.  Now it
>> appears in plain old B&W.  The system still comes up fine after
>> that with no other (obvious) problems.
>> 
>> Any ideas??

Since I saw your message, a friend's Mac II arrived, and we ran into the
same thing with a colour test startupscreen. So, I reset Parameter RAM
(affectionately known as PRAM) by holding down command, option and shift
keys simultaneously while opening the control panel. A dialog comes up
asking whether the user is sure he/she wants to reset PRAM.

Something curious with the Mac II is that PRAM seems to get clobbered a LOT
when a program crashes. I never find this happening on my Mac SE. Is this
a common problem? I've ordered a Mac II and need to know some of the
idiosyncrasies of the II.


Jason Haines, President
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