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Re: I think my IIGS just died...
- Subject: Re: I think my IIGS just died...
- From: "Paul Grammens" <grammens@svn.net>
- Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 09:54:45 -0700
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: Silicon Valley North, Inc. (http://www.svn.net)
- References: <msc1983-1607020438160001@192.168.1.100> <3D342049.AE4DFBF7@intergate.ca> <msc1983-1607021514290001@192.168.1.100> <3D34F4F1.DFB56152@intergate.ca> <msc1983-1707020145230001@192.168.1.100>
- Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.sys.apple2:21447
"Matthew Carpenter" <msc1983@mac.com> wrote
>
> Then I noticed a disk sticking out of my floppy drive...I rememberd
> wanting to see what was on the disk..it was some demo or something....so I
> pushed it in and made the IIGS boot up to it again... *beep!*..::Blank
> Screen::..It was the demo disk that put my IIGS out of comision the first
> time. So I just did what the users guide said again and then I pulled the
> floppy out and snapped it in half. (sure, I suppose I could have formated
> it and used it for something else, but the disk was rather old anyway and
> I wouldn't trust it to keep anything I saved on it for very long).
> --
I think I read somewhere that there was a IIgs virus which did this sort of
thing. Perhaps some old timers remember it.
-Paul