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From: zebolskyd@yvax.byu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mr. Macintosh
Message-ID: <817zebolskyd@yvax.byu.edu>
Date: 26 Sep 89 05:16:46 GMT
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In 22864.25142491@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG, Kevin asks:

>Does Mr. Macintosh really exist???

Yes, at least in the Macs with 64K ROMs, he did. Mine was undergoing one
of those wonderful crashes, where the screen fills with oatmeal and awful
screeches come from the speaker, when the screen suddenly went black and
four ICON-sized images of a little cartoon head appeared, then after about
two seconds, disappeared. That had to have been Mr. Macintosh. I posted
to this forum a while back asking the same question, and nobody knew. So
I am designing a small program to cruise through the ROMs, funneling all
their contents through an ICON-sized square. I'll get the little bugger's
address if it works, and post it. Maybe even a hex dump of him.

--Lyle D. Gunderson
zebolskyd@yvax.byu.edu