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Emax Plus 1.0 (10/16/89) OS reboot tip

2007-11-19 by Dave Sotnick

Okay Emax hackers, ever need to reboot your Emax I SE/HD running Plus
OS 1.0? Simply do the following, which will trigger a bug which will
reboot your Emax:

1) Master-4 (Erase All) - Create Default Preset? - Answer NO.
2) Preset Management-4 (Erase Preset)

Boom! Your Emax will reboot.

(I realize you can also just hit Preset-Management-4 until all presets
are gone and then one more time to cause the reboot.)

I find this handy when messing with media and devices on the SCSI bus
(for testing boot-ability, etc.). It also might save the power supply
to not have to turn the whole unit off/on to reboot.

Hope someone finds this handy.

Bonus points to anyone who knows of a certain "Easter egg" in the OS
(besides the obvious Bird Run). :-)

-Dave

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