Re: Capturing the CTRL-A-A

[Todd Vierling <tv%pobox.com@localhost>]

On Mon, 16 Nov 1998, Kolbjørn Barmen wrote:

: The reset line can ofcourse be cut, iirc it's a matter of clipping off
: one of the legs on one of the CIA (8520). 

No need to clip on most Amigas, since the CIA's are more often than not
socketed.  Just a bent out pin will do.

: As a side note, a person here at the computerclub once made a point of how 
: silly he thought the amiga keyboard reset thingy was, as anyone could just
: press the magic three, and caboom... a friend of mine replyed by walking
: up to the persons computer, some Sun box, and put his finger on the 
: powerbutton... "Gee... wonder what this one does!"

There's also the Sun trick of Stop-A: hold the Stop key and press A.  You'll
drop to the PROM debug monitor, and all system activity, even SCSI requests,
will halt.

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