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Not only that but the switch toggled line voltage that fed the power supply. Off meant off in those days.
by jdsully 7y ago
Not only that but the switch toggled line voltage that fed the power supply. Off meant off in those days.
- wlesieutre 7y agoAh, the first computer I remember had the hard power switch on the back and a button on the front to turn them on, but that would've been early/mid-90's.
- jdsully 7y agoThe ATX standard was released in 1995 and it took a few years for them to become common. Are you sure it wasn't the late 90s. Time-frames get hazy this far back, its actually not improbable these Office '97 machines are ATX.
- wlesieutre 7y agoIt ran System 7 which puts it somewhere between 1991 and 1997. Not super helpful. But Apple might have been off doing their own thing with respect to motherboard form factors and power buttons. And I could also be mixing it up with later computers.
- jdsully 7y agoApple did their own thing and didn’t follow ATX. Most Macs had soft power switches (often on the keyboard) except for the very old ones with the integrated CRT.