Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!ucsd!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ucbvax!NISC.SRI.COM!cwilson From: cwilson@NISC.SRI.COM (Chan Wilson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: RE:Applefestive Message-ID:Date: 28 Sep 89 04:18:19 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Lines: 56 >ramblings about applefestiveness ]>[Gassee] also demontrated a hands-off ]>mouse - one of those headsets that you wear on your head and use a ]>blow switch as the mouse button. This has been around for a couple ]>years, though. [...] ] ]Ah, but Video Keyboard hasn't been around: it lets you use the mouse ]instead of the keyboard in any GS application that supports NDAs. ] Hmm.. Good point. I wish they had that for the mac- there are times it would be nice to toss the keyboard away for limited periods of time. :-) ]>Someone from Western Digital (I'm pretty sure it was Bill Mench (sp?) ]>asked him why Apple hasn't had more commitment towards faster 65816's. ] ]It was indeed Bill Mensch, and the name of his company is Western Design ]Center. Does anybody know the truth behind the claims he made that he has lots of 6-10mhz 65816 chips? And is this true? ]The newsletter you mentioned is called "II Technical". (I read most of ]one issue, and there's certainly some interesting stuff in there, not ]counting a couple of gratuitous insults thrown at Apple.) Well, I saw the 'special Applefest edition' of The Road Apple, and my general conclusion was that it was a 'paper flame.' Not much intellectual content, lots of bitching and moaning. ]>Also, GS/OS 3.0 seems to have a few ]>random bugs, although this could be caused by my hard drive. (Old ]>datamac, SASI interface). ] ]"Random" bugs? Please be more specific. Well, okay, they aren't quite random- I've been able to reproduce it. After munging the installation process a couple of times, I got smart and used the Installer (;-]) to install it onto the hard disk. So I double click on the prodos icon when it's finished, and GS/OS loads just fine. "Fine and Dandy," I say, and proceed to rename Prodos to Start.GS.OS so I boot into Prodos 8 on startup. I accomplish this, and hit reset to verify that it works, and do a -Start.GS.OS to bounce into GS/OS. I power down, power back up, and try to enter GS/OS the same way. The thermometer fills up, and the machine is hung. So, I hit reset, and try again. This time, it loads fine. I have to run Start.GS.OS twice in order to get into GS/OS. When viewing the loading proceedures (hitting esc as it loads) the first time it says "--In Pause Mode! Hit Space to continue--" or somesuch similar. Space bar doesn't help, though... ] ] --Dave Lyons, Apple Computer, Inc. | DAL Systems --Chan Wilson "The vision of the future-- here, and now..." -- Sigue Sigue Sputnik cwilson@nisc.sri.com or cwilson@nic.ddn.mil `the center of the Internet Universe'