Re:Sierra’s Macintosh Timebomb
by acdha on Friday January 13, 2023 @10:28PM
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More accurately, it was real on earlier hardware when people had things like games which were unusable on processors faster than IBM’s original 4.77MHz 8086 processor. As a kid I had a hand-me-down system where that was definitely necessary for a handful of older games.
That meant almost every case had that button and people got used to it. That didn’t mean it was always connected - we’re talking a simple cable connecting to a couple of pins on the motherboard so this was trivial - and I knew a couple of people who disconnected it to keep kids or certain hopeless adults from clicking it, forgetting, and then complaining that the computer was slow.
By the late 386/486 era that’d become pretty common and you stopped seeing it as much.
That meant almost every case had that button and people got used to it. That didn’t mean it was always connected - we’re talking a simple cable connecting to a couple of pins on the motherboard so this was trivial - and I knew a couple of people who disconnected it to keep kids or certain hopeless adults from clicking it, forgetting, and then complaining that the computer was slow.
By the late 386/486 era that’d become pretty common and you stopped seeing it as much.