On 2016-09-07, Convergent MightyFrame <
mightyframect@gmail.com> wrote:
Does anyone know if the 3b1 has some kind of Screen Saver Mode, where
the screen goes blank after a while, and is woken up by keyboard
interaction?
I honestly don't remember.
I'm used to using the 7300 (non-3b1) models, and just recently I was
testing out a 3b1 motherboard, and this happened to me when I let it set
at a login prompt for about 20 minutes.
The screen when blank, but when I started typing, it appeared again.
Well ... there is very little difference between the 7300 and
the 3b1. Those which are most important:
1) The 3B1 has a hump under the monitor stem, to allow a
full-height 5-1/4" disk drive instead of the half-height
used in the 7300.
2) The 3B1 usually has more RAM. Likely 1 MB or 2 MB (not
counting that added on COMBO cards.
The 7300 can have as little as 256K (half populated with
smaller RAM chips, or 512K (fully populated with the smaller
RAM chips), or 1 MB (half-populated with the larger chips
used in the 3B1.
3) Hard disk supplied with the system can be up to 67 MB
on the 3B1.
It will be 5 MB or 10 MB on the 7300.
Note that these are all hardware, not software differences, but
the 7300 was often supplied with older versions of the OS. My first
7300, the only bought new, was 3.50 IIRC -- this was quite late in the production life of the machines.
The OS which I am mostly familiar with is the 3.51 or the 3.51m.
An earlier OS might not have a screen saver while the later might.
And -- maybe there is a configuration somewhere down in the
menus to turn on or off a screen saver. (It has been a long time since
I used them -- and I tended to bypass the windowing system and its
menus, and do everything with pure command line.
IIRC, you installed the OS on the 7300 -- but if you got the 3B1
with a working disk, it might have had something like that turned on by a previous owner.
Enjoy,
DoN.
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