zapping the PRAM

[Matt Marx]

For any StyleWriter II owners out there who have had problems hooking up,
you might try what an Apple service rep told me over the phone: zapping
the PRAM. It seems to work.

All you do is restart while holding down Option-Command-p-r (all four
keys at once). The machine will display the smiling Mac and go a few more
seconds, then start all over again. Let it do this three or four times in
succession and then release the keys to let it start up normally.

I did this and then my StyleWriter II worked fine. I don't know exactly
what "zapping the PRAM" means, but I think it has something to do with
system preferences. Once you do this, you'll have to reset all the
defaults like mouse speed, 32-bit addressing, desktop texture, etc.

One word of caution: zapping the PRAM will erase and remove a RAM disk,
which I learned the hard way. Be sure to save any docs to your hard drive
before you do this.

Matt