[Ti] Big Al note

[Steve Wozniak]

At 8:36 PM -0800 3/20/03, Hes Nikke wrote:

>The Hardware Test CD doesn't run the Mac OS, it runs it's own OS that is
>_very_ closely tied to the hardware that it goes with. In other words, you
>can't boot a PowerBook G4 Hardware test in a PowerMac G4, for that matter,
>you can't even boot it in a PowerBook G3 (FireWire) even though they are
>virtually the same machine.
>
>This is done to make absolutely sure that it isn't a software issues that
>could be causing errors.

But that doesn't explain why this is the first Macintosh I've bought in maybe the last 5 years that didn't come with a Hardware Test CD-ROM.
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Regards,

Steve  (is tv wake zone?)