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- From: sheldon@iastate.edu (Steve Sheldon)
- Subject: Re: WHAT is THIS?! (bizarre error)
- Message-ID: <sheldon.716564502@pv1417.vincent.iastate.edu>
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
- References: <kehBjuG00WB_0b24UB@andrew.cmu.edu> <crystal.716515432@glia>
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 13:41:42 GMT
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- In <crystal.716515432@glia> crystal@glia.biostr.washington.edu (Crystal) writes:
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- >In <kehBjuG00WB_0b24UB@andrew.cmu.edu> Steve Neas <sn15+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
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- >>>In article <9209131139.AA23562@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> z3kpw@TTACS1.TTU.EDU
- >>> ("Wheeler, Kevin") writes:
- >>>>Argh. The weirdest thing happened yesterday. I was trying to connect an
- >>>> audio cable behind my Amiga setup and in the process I wiggled the monitor
- >>>> cable amongst the nest of cables.
- >>>>The screen become "garbled" and the 'puter locked up, so I had to reboot.
- >>>>Lo and behold, BOTH of the disks in my floppy drives had been corrupted!
- >>>>So if anyone can please tell me a) what the hell happened
- >>>>
-
- >I have noticed that IBM's and Apple ][+'s seem to be less vulnerable to
- >simple monitor cable switching (used to do it all the time with mine on),
- >but the Amiga is *extremely* sensitive to such things - like even the modem
- >being on when it gets unplugged (my IBM clone - no problem) but on Ami - I
- >thought I killed the serial port. Again, rebooting was all that was needed
- >to clear the stray "command" out of the circuit, but *geez* I gotta be more
- >CAREFUL!
-
- On my A500 I didn't have to unplug the modem, but just shut the power off
- on it. The A500 most always freaked out and came back with some GURU message.
-
- Don't know why it would do that. But I just decided from there on never
- to turn the modem off while the computer was on.
- --
- Steve Sheldon sheldon@iastate.edu
- Iowa Cooperative Soil Survey Resource Unit
- 2142 Agronomy, Iowa State University (515) 294-5429
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