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From: gmb@iclswe.UUCP (Grahame Budd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Interesting error.....
Message-ID: <372@iclswe.UUCP>
Date: 18 Oct 89 09:27:46 GMT
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Reply-To: gmb@iclswe.UUCP (Grahame Budd)
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Another interesting error...

I use my 500 mostly for games and so it is connected up in a complex with the
Video recorders, Hi-fi and TV tuner. The selection onto the monitor is a bit
complicated but you can see either the Amiga output, T.V. or Video depending
on the selection.

I was watching a tape a few weeks ago. When it finished the system flipped
back to show Amiga output with a GURU error. The system seemed to have crashed
while I was watching the tape.

I couldn't remember which program was active so I simply 3-key reset. The GURU
didn't even flicker. Thinking that this was a VERY hard fault I switched the
power off and on. The GURU still didn't flicker.

Then I noticed that the machine wasn't in fact switched on.

It turned out that the local TV station was processing its graphics with an 
Amiga 2000 and it was that machine which had crashed and was broadcasting its
GURU to most of the homes in Stockholm. We had to phone them up and ask them
to press thier left mouse button.

Had me worried for a while there though!