Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!purdue!mentor.cc.purdue.edu!akl From: akl@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Rob Tillotson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Interesting error..... Message-ID: <4586@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> Date: 19 Oct 89 01:36:47 GMT References: <1647@nigel.udel.EDU> <5629@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> <4857@wpi.wpi.edu> <372@iclswe.UUCP> <397@mohawk.cs.utexas.edu> Reply-To: akl@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Rob Tillotson) Organization: Who ya gonna call? CloneBusters! Lines: 34 In article <397@mohawk.cs.utexas.edu> bryan@cs.utexas.edu writes: >schedules of upcoming community events, and so on. The screen consists of a >static graphic in the top half, and a vertically scrolling chart in the bottom >half. > One day I was flipping past this channel, and noticed a >familiar-looking requester in the middle of a blue screen, which said, "Disk >full, please delete some image files." Hmm, this sounds very much like what happened one night this summer on our local cable system. They have a "program guide" channel like this - the bottom half has scrolling lists of programs, and the top half is either all video or half video and half static text. One night about 10pm we were flippling through the channels and came across a Guru Meditation box on the top of the screen, and the program guide was showing satellite listings (and weather reports from Tulsa, OK) instead of local ones. Also, the top half had two different video windows instead of one text and one video. Unfortunately, nobody was there to reset it... but I did manage to catch the reboot on tape the next morning. There was the familiar shades-of-gray sequence, followed by a CLI screen which showed an addmem of 256k. Someone typed in a command and the program guide reappeared, and black overlays covered the bottom and half of the top regions. Next, a blank program guide started scrolling by, and a couple of minutes later the real data started appearing. The most amusing part of this, though, was the fact that the national video portion of this program guide was sponsored by Commodore-Amiga, so I now have a tape of an Amiga 500 commercial with a Guru box on top of it... G'day, eh? --TS -- Rob Tillotson Usenet: akl@mace.cc.purdue.edu 320 Brown St. #406 BITNET: ROBT@PURCCVM West Lafayette, IN 47906 Fido: 1:201/40.302