On 1 Jan 80 at 1:12, Kali McLaughlin wrote:
>>Like l.d. I would look to simple causes for these symptoms. I had the
>>same thing happen yesterday when setting up an "internet cafe" computer.
>>(yes, and when at the end of the earth tourists try to email back to
>>civilisation they will have to use Arachne!) It turned out to be simply that
>>I had not loaded an extended memory manager! (mixed up config.sys files - my
>>plan is to have the machine only startable from a 360Kb boot disk which
>>people have to rent by the hour...heh! heh! heh!) Hardware firewall? Maybe I
>>could get more extreme and install one of my partners 8" floppy drives!
>>
>>More seriously though, it sounds to me living in grungeville that you
>>have dirty SIMMS sockets, or perhaps an " unsettled" internal modem doing
>>things unilaterally. I had no end of hell with one machine with a 14Kb
>>Dynalink which caused random reboots.
I thought of those sort of things as a possibility, but I don't think
I will persue this too much until it happens again. Maybe I can pay
attention to where I was surfing and try to repeat.
Regards,
Dale Mentzer
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