Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!mucs!p4.cs.man.ac.uk!vanaards From: vanaards@p4.cs.man.ac.uk (Steven van Aardt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn Subject: BBC keyboards - forwarding a posting Message-ID: Date: 8 Mar 91 12:48:03 GMT Sender: news@cs.man.ac.uk Lines: 39 PLEASE DON'T REPLY TO ME - I'M ONLY FORWARDING THIS MESSAGE From R.Reeves@cs.ucl.ac.uk Fri Mar 8 11:12:36 1991 Return-Path: Message-Id: <24344.9103081114@m1.cs.man.ac.uk> Received: from uk.ac.ucl.cs by m1.cs.man.ac.uk; Fri, 8 Mar 91 11:14:09 GMT Received: from clapham.cs.ucl.ac.uk by bells.cs.ucl.ac.uk with SMTP inbound id <3040-0@bells.cs.ucl.ac.uk>; Fri, 8 Mar 1991 11:13:52 +0000 To: vanaards <(Steven van Aardt) vanaards%t7@cs.man.ac.uk> Subject: Crashing Date: Fri, 08 Mar 91 11:13:48 +0000 From: Rick Reeves Status: R I don't know whether this is related at all, but with my old BBC B (and apparently all other BBC Bs), if you type "G.0:G.0:G.0: ..." until the buffer fills up, and then press return (assuming you don't have a program in memory) Then the computer crashes, and makes strange non-terminating sounds and puts occasional characters onto the screen. This might be linked to your problem, but I don't know. You might like to send this tidbit to the bulletin board (I can't) just for the interest of BBC B users. Bye, Rick Reeves ,----------------------------------------------------------------------------. |Beeep. My brain is currently not available, so any opinions expressed herein| |should not be attributed to myself or my organisation, only to the motor | |neurons that are currently driving each of my digits to stike the keyboard. | `----------------------------------------------------------------------------' -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- - JANET E-mail : vanaards@uk.ac.man.cs.p4 (Steven van Aardt) -- -- Warning this user has been designated for termination on the 21.6.91 -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------