For PowerBooks 140,145,145B,160,165,165c,170,180 & 180c only!!!!
PowerBook Insomnia will put your computer into an endless loop to prevent your computer from going to sleep on its own. This can be useful if you wish to drain batter energy (more than if you let your computer go to sleep on its own) to help prevent ‘battery-memory’. The manual that came with your PowerBook (or at least mine) says to help against ‘battery-memory’, once a month or so, leave your computer unplugged, ignore all warnings and let your computer go to sleep on its own. But if you run PB Insomnia shortly before your computer does go to sleep, PB Insomnia will ignore all sleep requests from your system, keeping your computer running for about 5 - 30 minutes (depending on built-up ‘battery-memory’) longer than it would if you just let it go to sleep on it’s own. PB Insomnia won’t make your batteries last forever or keep you from buying new ones, it’ll just help them last longer.
Warning: When running PB Insomnia, your computer will not go to sleep when your battery runs out, it will simply run out of power. Because of this, you may have to wait a few minutes after plugging back-in before your computer turns off (this rarely happened to me, but I feel I best warn you so you don’t freak out) and most of all, any applications you have running will not be given a chance to save, so PLEASE, save and quit all possible programs before running PB Insomnia.
PB Insomnia is totally free and can be freely distributed in it's original form but I make no warranties or claims as to it's safety.
If at anytime you wish to exit the loop just click the mouse/trackball button to quit.
