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From: cloos@acsu.buffalo.edu (James H. Cloos)
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Subject: Re: GATEWAY-48 codelock program
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Date: 20 Feb 91 21:12:20 GMT
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In article <10897@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> bgribble@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Bill Gribble) writes:
|In article <9102181325.AA00534@quarl0.etek.chalmers.se> erikmb@etek.chalmers.se (Erik Bryntse) writes:
|
|>After many months and hours of work on my codelock program
|>GATEWAY-48, I have finally decided to post it. It is still not
|>quite perfect (some problems have been reported when using control
|>alarms) but my nerves and my studies do not allow any more work on
|>this one. I hope you will find it useful!
|
|Well, I installed it, and ran the assighn program.  The calc asked me for 
|  a code. I entered one.  nothing happened.  Nothing continued to
|  happen.  I hit on-C (realizing with a growing sense of dread that this
|  woudn't work) Nothing stubbornly persisted in taknig place.  I hit
|  the reset button.  nada.  I took the batteries out.. waited.. put 
| them back in.. the hourglass came on, but it was a funny color.  Nothing
|  else.  Took the batteries back out.. and I'm waiting still.  If this
|  doesn't work, we may have the first victim of the `may damage the hardware'
|  warning...
|
|                                   Bill Gribble
|                               


Gateway crashed onmy version A as well.  ASSIGN worked OK, but when I went
to enter a code into the machine, it locked up after painting the "Enter a
code, please" screen.  ON-C failed, but the reset button did work for me.
(I should point out that I loaded it into an empty calc on my way into
recovering from another crash that led me to get a new battery for my RAM
card--everything's OK again, so far.)  The only thing that I lost in this
process was the gateway library.  Somehow, it got erased.  (Presumeably it
was corupted and since the crc wasn't right, the 48 gobbled it at the post
reset system halt.)

Is anyone else getting it to work.  (Or did Erik get bitten by the 'posting
an old, buggy version to the net' bug that I know has bitten me more times
than I care to recount! ;)

Happy hunting.

-JimC
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