On 4/15/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You might well need a new PRAM battery,

I think so, but I hate going inside Compacts - I am nervous around
exposed CRTs. Also, it works fine, so why spend the time & the money?

> OTOH, those things last forever for
> some reason, which is probably why Apple moved them onto the hard-to-access
> logicboards. What happens if you specify the startup system with Startup
> Disk? Amazing that it defaults to 24-bit when the original system software
> for the Classic II was 7.0.1. This is going to sound like a stupid question,
> but was that what System 7 required -- 32-bit clean Mac?

7.6 is the first version to /require/ a 32-bit-clean ROM. 7.5.x
doesn't, which is why it will run on an SE/30, with "dirty" ROMs.

> OFF TOPIC WARNING:
> She was a bright spot in the show, but it's a very different experience from
> British humor. SNL suffered from something Monty Python never did which I
> think is a purely American by-product of abundant capitalism: They had a
> generous 90 minutes to fill each week, fueled by commercial breaks, which is
> one thing for the late night talk-shows of the day like Johnny Carson, but

... Never seen him, either...

> quite another for a comedy sketch show. Rather than script out a tight
> comedy sketch like Python would, they had improve diarrhea and the sketches

"Improv" diarrhoea? :�)

> just wandered aimlessly for up to 10 minutes each (still do). What SNL gave
> us was some truly great characters, comedians and the occasional comic
> moment of pure genius, but you have to wade through a lot to get there.

Ahhh. This may explain why it didn't strike me as hugely impressive,
the few clips & things I've seen.

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