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Re: Deadly "Screen of Twos"



In article <2tav5m$11e@jadzia.CSOS.ORST.EDU> yoshi@CSOS.ORST.EDU ('da Dino) writes:
>Mike McCormick (mtm4@rsvl.unisys.com) wrote:
>: I suspect a clobber of some crucial bit of ProDos8 memory?...
>
>	Nope.

Yep.  The fact that the speaker is clicking means that C0xx is being thrashed.

>: Can anyone guess what could cause this odd behavior?

Maybe a byte flipped on the disk, if it's old.  Who knows, maybe the
disk was exposed to a magnetic field (speakers, monitors, TVs,
microwaves, etc).
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Ian Schmidt / irsman@iastate.edu / irsman@cs.iastate.edu
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