> But I was amazed at how often the apps/OS crashed Which is one reason why Step 1 after unpacking the computer was to install the "Programmers Switch" to get

> But I was amazed at how often the apps/OS crashed Which is one reason why Step 1 after unpacking the computer was to install the "Programmers Switch" to get access to the reset button. Rebooting the machine was completely routine. And it wasn't particularly slow (in context, by todays standards, everything was slow, all of those machines were glacial), at least for the time. I don't recall having to ever really run Disk First Aid on anything though. In fact, I remember making a "toy" that was a simple app that all it did was bring up the "Bomb box" (the infamous dialog with the sizzling bomb an reset button akin to the Blue Screen of Death). The detail was that if you moused to the Reset button in the dialog (which was, essentially an autonomic response for most Mac users), the Reset button would move away from the mouse. So, you "couldn't" hit the reset button. There was another button, typically disabled (I think is said Resume or something, I can't recall -- it was always disabled), if you clicked that, it would "melt" the screen and exit the app, no harm done. I spent a lot of meticulous time duplicating the dialog box and bomb icon. Run the program, note the box and icon, hit the interrupt button (on the Programmers Switch) to bring up the original, tweak, rinse and repeat. Someone eventually uploaded it to the assorted BBSes. I found it in a book in a bookstore once.