Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!cs.umn.edu!uc!noc.MR.NET!gacvx2.gac.edu!hhdist From: aaastrom@nike.calpoly.edu (Allen Aastrom) Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds Subject: RESET button Message-ID: <9105132124.AA162125@nike.calpoly.edu> Date: 13 May 91 21:24:37 GMT Article-I.D.: nike.9105132124.AA162125 Lines: 26 Return-path: To: handhelds@gac.edu In article <1991May12.203824.12992@colorado.edu> frechett@spot.Colorado.EDU (-=Runaway Daemon=-) writes: >In article TDSTRONG%MTUS5.cts.mtu.edu@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU writes: >>fine however when run the machine entirely locked up. Even pulling the >>batteries and the dreaded ON-A-F failed to work. The last resort was the >>RESET Button and that worked. > >NOW, we are on the point of this message... I see this all the time... >someone posts.. "... it locked up the calculator.... ON-C didn't work .... >ON-A-F didn't work... pulling the batteries didn't work... and finally >I tried the reset button as a last resort and it worked.... " >WHY??? I don't understand why people use it as a last resort. Let me let you >stays off. It seems to be a bit kinder than ON-A-F. I say use it right >after ON-C. What are other people's comments? > > ian > >-=Runaway Daemon=- I highly agree! If ON-C doesn't work, I go directly for the RESET. And BTW ian, the exact problem you described with the older version of tetris happened to me too. And I thought I was the only one to have that happen to!