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From: d@alice.UucP (Daniel Rosenberg)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Amiga Death (comes with story!)
Message-ID: <6017@alice.uUCp>
Date: Thu, 4-Sep-86 16:57:33 EDT
Article-I.D.: alice.6017
Posted: Thu Sep  4 16:57:33 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 5-Sep-86 02:03:11 EDT
Reply-To: d@alice.UUCP (Daniel Rosenberg)
Organization: Utility Muffin Research Kitchen
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I want to publicly thank everyone who helped me (successfully) with
what will be henceforth known as the Centronics Pin 14 problem
(that is, if you have pin 14 connected on either side and you get
too many line feeds, don't hesitate to disocnnect it.)

So I was very happy. I had a cable that worked. I was printing out 
a paper, and the printer fed wrong, so I turned it off, got the
paper out of the mess it was in, and turned it back on again.

The Amiga looked pretty crashed. It refused to continue printing,
was oblivious to everything (except CTRL-Amiga-Amiga, I presume.)

I thought, "Darn. Now I've lost this article!"

Darn, darn.

I jiggled the printer cable.

Ack! Pzzpht! 

The screen went black. I thought, "OHMYGODMYPRINTER'SDEADWHATAMIGONNADO?!"

So, I calmed myself down.

I rebooted (or rather, it rebooted.)

And it showed a little upside-down Kickstart disk. "Kickstart? Hmm." That
was weird. Writable-control-store gone. Oh well. I happily stuck in a
Kickstart.

It said "No. A Kickstart disk, please."

 ...

Five Kickstart disks later, I realized I was in a hole. I finally found a
place that had an Amiga repair department.

$35 to start. $50/hour for labor. ("Okay, not bad.") I explained the
problem. ("Oh - we'll have to replace the motherboard. Ten working days
and at LEAST $300.")

Does anyone have any suggestions? This simply COULDN'T be worth a new
motherboard...

Commodore, help? Please? Aie!

Any suggestions appreciated. Boy do I have all the luck.

Thanks much.
-- 
# Daniel Rosenberg  (CE)   @   AT&T Bell Labs, Murray Hill 
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