Tech Rumors/Legends?

On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, Charles P. Hobbs (SoCalTip) wrote: Nice little summary article. "Aquarius Mattel When Mattel demonstrated this computer at a trade show in 1983, employees had to conceal one of the keys with masking tape. For some bizarre reason known only to Matte l engineers, the Aquarius had a convenient key that instantly rebooted the computer and wiped out all your data." It was called the RESET key and I hated it. They at least designed a little ridge around it so it was harder to accidentally press. However, I remember you could do a CTRL-C or some other control key sequence and "undo" the RESET (basially it would cancel the reset and put you back where you just were). When you first turned the Aquarius on, you had a little intro screen that said whatever, something like "Mattel Aquarius" ... "Press any key to continue". When you pressed a key it initialized BASIC and plopped you into a prompt. Pressing the RESET key apparently didn't erase the memory but just took you to the initial startup screen, so it was made possible to back out of a RESET using the control key sequence. Sellam International Man of Intrigue and Danger ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Looking for a six in a pile of nines... Coming soon: VCF 4.0! VCF East: Planning in Progress See http://www.vintage.org for details!