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From: peter@cbmvax.commodore.com (Peter Cherna)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: A500 shutdown!
Message-ID: <20127@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 26 Mar 91 15:55:50 GMT
References: <66122@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> <16970001@hpavla.avo.hp.com>
Reply-To: peter@cbmvax.commodore.com (Peter Cherna)
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Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <16970001@hpavla.avo.hp.com> griffith@hpavla.avo.hp.com (Jeff Griffith) writes:
>I've also noticed various forms of this problem; sometimes only the 
>screen goes blank (I've memorized the save seqeunce),

One of the early Amiga viruses (Byte Bandit, I believe), had a habit
of blanking the screen.  I recommend you get ahold of a reliable virus
eradicator and go through your disk library.

Followups to comp.sys.amiga.programmer, since c.s.a.tech is an "obsolete"
group replaced by c.s.a.programmer.

>						Jeff Griffith
     Peter
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