Turning the thing off (was Re: BESM-6; hyphenation

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From: j... J. Eric Townsend
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 1990 02:08

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In article <22...@opus.cs.mcgill.ca> pet...@opus.cs.mcgill.ca (Peter Deutsch) writes:
>Yup, the NeXT does this. You actually can initiate a power
>off request by pushing the button, but it goes to
>software, wich pops up a window and asks you "Are you
>Sure? Unsaved changes will be lost." etc. It then runs
>shutdown, and power cycles the machine.

Turn the fucker off at the surge protector -- I doubt it's computer controlled.
(You don't have a on/off surge protector?  Get one.)o

The big white (or black, or red, or...) function key is there for a reason.
:-)

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J. Eric Townsend -- University of Houston Dept. of Mathematics (713) 749-2120
Internet: j...@uh.edu
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