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From: rdr@inuxh.UUCP (Robert Rindfuss)
Newsgroups: net.micro.att
Subject: Re: Sidekick prob. on 6300
Message-ID: <481@inuxh.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 26-Sep-86 10:30:55 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 26 10:30:55 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 30-Sep-86 03:28:35 EDT
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Organization: AT&T Consumer Products, Indianapolis
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> I have a problem with Sidekick.  I have a PC 6300, 20 meg Seagate HD, 640K
> MS DOS 3.1, and Sidekick ver. 1.56.  Sometimes when I exit Sidekick (with
> ESC) it covers the screen with thin white and purple horizontal lines.
> Any text typed appears in double wide, double high purple letters on top of
> these lines.  I can correct this by typing "mode co80".  If I reenter 
> Sidekick and exit again, it does it again.  
> 
> Has anyone else had this problem with a 6300?  Is it a warrenty problem?
> Any advice would be appreciated.
> 
Yes.  It's supposedly a timing problem in the video board. Not all 6300s do
it, but some do.  Call Borland - they have a patch
for Sidekick that fixes the problem.  I found them to be very helpful -
when I first called they were aware of the problem but didn't have a fix at
the time.  They took my name and address and said they would let me know when
they had a fix (...sure they would...).  Two months later I got a letter
with the patch!  (I'd post it but I can't find it.)

Bob Rindfuss
AT&T Graphics Software Labs
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