Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!news.larc.nasa.gov!tab00.larc.nasa.gov!scott From: scott@tab00.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Yelich) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: dead 1040 (or something like that) Message-ID: Date: 5 Mar 91 16:31:00 GMT References: <5910@baird.cs.strath.ac.uk> Sender: news@news.larc.nasa.gov (USENET Network News) Organization: NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va. 23665 Lines: 34 In-Reply-To: fsimmons@cs.strath.ac.uk's message of 1 Mar 91 14:26:49 GMT I don't have any firm advice except that I am a firm believer in the "No black magic" principle. It kept my sanity when I was programming the Amiga (spit). You hve started out on the right track. I just spoke with one of my psychology professors about magic rituals. (You know, when the car breaks down and the male gets out and opens the hood, looks, looks, looks and then shuts the hood and the car starts..) My advice is to take the board out and stick it in your friend's machine, NOT MY MACHINE! if friend's machine with your board works then [DELETED] else repeat write ("Ooooh, pretty smoke!") until no_more_smoke write ("something major wrong with your computer") write ("something major wrong with friends computer, now") rhetorical ("Will you pay to fix friend's machine?") write ("have another friend?") repeat (main) if alive hope you get it fixed, Fraser I hope you get it fixed, keep your friends and spend as little money as possible. -- Signature follows. [Skip now] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scott D. Yelich scott@[xanth.]cs.odu.edu [128.82.8.1] After he pushed me off the cliff, he asked me, as I fell, ``Why'd you jump?'' Administrator of: Game-Design requests to ODU/UNIX/BSD/X/C/ROOT/XANTH/CS/VSVN/ -----------------------------------------------------------------------------