I remember that! We used to have the grouch in the trashcan when I was little... Think you could send that my way? I'd love to put it on some of my old macs, for old times sake :)
Elliott (Formerly Cyrus) -------------------- Hobbittech.com Mac Specialist - Low Cost Mac Services in AZ On Jun 8, 2009, at 10:24 AM, Christian Wacker wrote: > > well I feel like a complete Arse... "The grouch" is just a trashcan > animation... I must have some other extention enabled that saves pram > settings, because the battery has been physically removed, and it > would > loose the settings unless this extention was in the folder... > any idea why this happens? > > -------------------------------------------------- > From: "Christian Wacker" <pizzaboy...@hotmail.com> > Sent: Monday, June 08, 2009 11:25 AM > To: <vintage-macs@googlegroups.com> > Subject: Re: Supid question about battery on Plus/SE > >> >> If you cannot find batteries, I did come across a wonderful extention >> that _seems_ to replace the need for a battery by saving the Pram >> settings to disk before shutdown. This extention is called "the >> grouch" I found it on a floppy that was for some odd reason in the >> drive of my PowerMac 6100 and when installed on both my Classic and >> LCII (Both with dead batteries) it retains all setting after boot >> (including the color settings on the LCII). I don't know where to >> find >> it, or how to dump it, but if I get instructions, I will post a copy >> of it for you, or you might be able to find a copy yourself. >> -hope that helps >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------- >> From: "Ken Daggett" <kadagg...@verizon.net> >> Sent: Monday, June 08, 2009 11:13 AM >> To: <vintage-macs@googlegroups.com> >> Subject: Re: Supid question about battery on Plus/SE >> >>> >>> On 8 Jun 2009, at 08:55:17 PDT, Christian Wacker wrote: >>> >>>> sorry, my Email client sent 2 copies of the message in different >>>> states of completion. My full message is a few above this one >>> ----------- >>> Well, given that I read messages "off line" rather than >>> fuss with the web interface, it would be helpful if enough >>> of the original message were included to understand the >>> subject of the discussion. >>> >>> Launching a browser and navigating to a website, sorting >>> messages by thread and reading the stack just to get the >>> meaning is usually just too much. >>> >>> Ken >>> http://mysite.verizon.net/res7gt1w/stackomacs >>> >>> >>> >>>> >>> >> >>> >> > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to vintage-macs@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vintage-macs-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
