What are the really unusual or weird computers?

Liam Proven lproven at gmail.com
Fri Jun 22 10:57:58 CDT 2007


On 22/06/07, Richard <legalize at xmission.com> wrote:
>
> In article <467BE76B.1020709 at atarimuseum.com>,
>     "Curt @ Atari Museum" <curt at atarimuseum.com>  writes:
>
> > Well, the Original Mac (and subsequents) did have a CLI, you just needed
> > to know the sequence of buttons to push to get a CLI window to pop up...
>
> Are you *sure* the original Mac had a CLI?
>
> This is the first I've heard of this and it was very much discussed at
> the time the Mac was introduced.  Jobs was totally against a CLI AFAIK.

Exactly! Closest thing I can think of is MACSbug, the monitor window
that pops up when you press the Programmers' Button:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacsBug

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