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in article <881030205326.543196@PCO-MULTICS.HBI.HONEYWELL.COM>, Friesen@PCO-MULTICS.HBI.HONEYWELL.COM says:
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> Well, if you remember, I was the one who posted a while back saying that
> I had a disk with many files of the same name (thanks to those who
> replied).  Well, I'm back with an even more bizzar error.  As I was
> typing the last message I posted about the megneto optical drive in the
> capture buffer of Flash, strange things started happening.  As I typed
> in 'ing ' at the end of a word, the computer started hiccupping.  I
> still got the "key-click" sound, but it wouldn't disply what I typed,
> instead it kept duplicating the 'ing ' of the last word I typed.  After
> it did this about 15 times, the system froze with 2 bombs, and I had to
> reset.  When it duplicated the 'ing ', it did it at the same speed that
> I had originally typed it in, and as it reached the end of the line,
> Flash still triggered its wrap-around.
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> If anyone could figure this out, they sure deserve a pat on the back!
> 
> Aric Friesen
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> PS
>       I had just tried to log onto a mainframe, but I got tons of
> garbage (I think it was noise).  I hungup and loged on again and again
> got some garbage.  The strange thing is that the garbage of both logons
> was the same ie it displayed the same characters.

Do you have a joystick or other similar device plugged into your ST?  It
is a known fact that Proline Joysticks (The ones that work on the 7800
game system) will cause the ST to act in the manner in which you described.


Dan Scott


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