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From: northrup@wpi.wpi.edu (Jim Northrup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Interesting error.....
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Date: 17 Oct 89 02:19:35 GMT
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Reply-To: northrup@wpi.wpi.edu (Jim Northrup)
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I had an interesting error this evening.  I was running low on memory
(I mean _real_ low) when I opened up a disk icon from the Workbench.
Apparently, I ran completely out of memory in the process.  What's
interesting is the way my 500 crashed.

The internal drive continued to whirrrrr....
The external drive began chattering very, very loudly.  Imagine loading
  and old Electronic Arts copy-protected disk on a C64 1541 and holding
  it up to a microphone....
My dot matrix printer spit a bunch of ink out onto the paper, forming
  a Rorschach-like blob, and then the head began whizzing back and forth
  printing italic-!'s and ^?'s.
The screen began flashing yellow; the title bar couldn't print error 
  messages fast enough.

It was pretty scary!  Ctrl-Amiga-Chickenhead* fixed it up okay, but I 
think that's my most impressive crash to date.


* Just kidding, my Amiga's not _that_ old.
-- 
Jim Northrup                                               northrup@wpi.wpi.edu
Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences
Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester MA  01609
I wish I could hear the soundtrack to my life.  Then I would know when to duck.