Today a friend of mine tried to work at one of my G4s, a 733MHz at MacOS 9.2.2. While he was heavyly klicking around, opening Classilla and Acrobat 5 at the same time as XPress, he got a reboot alert box. You know one of these System 7 style ones, where the reeboot button is not drawn at the screen because the mac is frozen before he can draw the box to end.

But – and now hold on:

Inside this alert box, there seemed to be a console. Maybe the open firmware? We could type in, delete, etc. sadly I am not familiar with OF so I had no possible command at hand. We also couldn´t reproduce this behavior, …