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From: ranger@ecsvax.UUCP (Rick N. Fincher)
Newsgroups: net.micro.apple
Subject: Re:  ProDOS bug??
Message-ID: <1740@ecsvax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 26-Jun-86 09:54:52 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 26 09:54:52 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 27-Jun-86 05:31:24 EDT
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> >I have had a problem when running in ProDOS for quite awhile...
> 
> >I run a BBS...
> 
> >Every now and then, when the program would CHAIN to another section, the
> >disk drive would just lock up!  
> 
> >If it makes any difference, I am running on an enhanced //e, 128k 80col card,
> >two floppies, and a Sider 10meg drive (it's for sale by the way).
>  
> >		Tom Arnold -- Purdue University
> 
> 
> One possiblility is that it's not ProDOS, but heat buildup.  You must have a 
> serial card or modem card in there as well.  That's four cards.  Do you also 
> have a clock?  Is the machine is up 24hrs. a day?  At any rate, I have seen an 
> Apple lock up and do all sorts of weird things because of too much heat.  You 
> should try putting a System Saver type fan on the beast and see if that helps.  
> One that blows outward from the machine (like the Kensington) is better than 
> one that blows into it because you draw cool air in through every opening in 
> the case rather than just from the vent where the fan is located.
> 
> I have no connection ith Kensington, just a satisfied System Saver owner.
> 
>     Dave FitzPatrick
>   
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