How to properly restart (warm boot) a Lisa?

[mikerofone]

Hi all,

is there a way of rebooting a Lisa that doesn't involve pushing the front switch to power it down, and then fire it back up again? While that works, I feel like I'm stressing the components unnecessarily when doing so. Use cases include rebooting to switch from LOS to Macintosh System, or vice versa.

I know that Lisa has a reset switch on the back, but I assume it performs a hard reset that doesn't give LOS a chance to flush the disk cache and get ready for a reboot first.

The seller I got my Lisa from warned me that file system and even the Profile itself might get into inconsistent states if the system is rebooted / turned off without following proper procedure - not sure how much there is to it, but I don't know the system well enough to YOLO the reset switch when on the desktop with all applications closed, and call it a day.

Thanks for any insights!
Cheers
mikerofone

 

[lisa2]

Hold down the apple key while you press the power button. This should take you to the environments window that should offer a "Restart" button to reboot without power down.

 

[mikerofone]

Ohhh nice, thanks for the quick help, lisa2!
Where would one normally learn such a thing? I only have the machine, no manuals. Sounds like I should find some Lisa Office System manuals (or PDFs of those), I wonder what other tricks I'm missing out on. I tried googling it and also searching the forums, but no cigar.

I wonder whether the same works from Macintosh System. The one on my only has the "Shutdown" item in the "Special" menu, no "Restart" as later System (Finder?) version have it.

Cheers
mikerofone

Edit: Found a Lisa 2 manual at http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/apple/lisa/owners_manual/Lisa_2_Owners_Guide_1984.pdf. Nice, will give that one a read.