D Finnigan wrote:
Michael J. Mahon wrote:In this case, intermittency makes me strongly suspect the cable and connectors.Tomorrow I will try swapping cables when things fail. The problem is that all of my II computing gets done late at night, so by the time things fail, it's already past my bed-time so I choose to go to sleep instead of spend even more time fixing it. I'll get started earlier tomorrow to prevent this problem. Personally, I think that it's something software-related on the Mac G3.
I understand...and I think it's really unfortunate that our systems have become so complex that we accept nondeterminacy as normal. ;-( -michael NadaNet and AppleCrate II: parallel computing for Apple II computers! Home page: http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon "The wastebasket is our most important design tool--and it's seriously underused."