[A89] Re: A tale of much horror
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[A89] Re: A tale of much horror
This is interesting indeed, and I was stupid enough to run the EXACT same command to have no problems, except the status line reflected the omniscient words "crash intercepted". Sounds interesting... I have PreOS installed.
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 20:20:21 -0400
Nick Tarleton <nickptar@mindspring.com> wrote:
> Yea, I was at school, and with much boredom. And in my infinite stupidity, I
> ran this command:
> Exec "000000"
> But lo, I had PreOS running, so there should be no harm. Ha! There appears a
> message saying "Line 1111 Error", and a freeze of the system. Yet oddly,
> still the modifier keys work. This will not be dwellen upon. Pulling of the
> batteries hath no effect, for mine calculator is corrupted to the core. At
> home, I attempt the great feat of removal of the backup battery. It worketh,
> clearing the RAM. In another of Gof's great mysteries, all appears very
> slowly at startup, although after that nothing unusual is seen. Rashly, I
> runneth same command again. This time the message be "Invalid Instruction."
> Repeated removal of the batteries does not work, leaving only a pox of dots
> on the screen. Only battery removal for half of a minute has any effect,
> restoring normalcy once again.
>
> Does anybody know what the hell happened?
> --
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