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From: po87553@tut.fi (Ojala Pasi Juhani)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: C64 OKIMATE-10 PRINTER TROUBLE.
Message-ID: <1628@alva.tut.fi>
Date: 4 May 89 07:43:07 GMT
References: <12636@ihlpy.ATT.COM> <1613@alva.tut.fi> <6747@cbmvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: po87553@alva.UUCP (Ojala Pasi Juhani)
Organization: Tampere University of Technology, Finland
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In article <6747@cbmvax.UUCP> fred@cbmvax.UUCP (Fred Bowen) writes:
>>  I once (in fact more than once) connected 1581,1541 and Star NL-10 to
>>my c64 and wondered why the computer acted so weird... It resetted by
>>...

>It should be well known by now that any serial bus devices must be turned on
>or disconnected from the serial bus.  In the C64, the internal and external
>reset lines are linked such that any device which pulls reset low
>(...) can affect the rest of the system as described above....

  Yes, after two weird resettions (how do I spell that?) I made the
same conclusion and disconnected the 1541 drive, it wasn't even
needed..
  Afterwards I bought another 64.. Now I have two systems, other running
my bbs, another for games (demos).

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