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- From: DonD@cup.portal.com (Don Robert DeCosta)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: WHAT is THIS?! (bizarre error)
- Message-ID: <65881@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 92 22:04:02 PDT
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- References: <kehBjuG00WB_0b24UB@andrew.cmu.edu>
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- >I've heard this warning many times (and occasionally not heeded it).
- >So what would this actually do to harm the computer?
- >
- >Just curious,
- > -Steve-
- >sn15@andrew.cmu.edu
- >
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- Since the Amiga is very dependant on its custom chips and the custom chips'
- timing can be synced to an external video source and the pin to provide
- that external clock signal is on the 23 pin video connector and since the
- original poster said he "jiggled" the monitor cable when this all happened,
- I would guess, in this particular case, that he freaked out the chips!
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- Don DeCosta |The nice thing about sanity is| VM/Nomad2
- DonD@cup.portal.com |you can lose it more than once| Amiga/Imagine
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