Help wanted: Mac II seizing up

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From: Andrew Glassner
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 1988 00:00

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Help!  We have a Mac II running System 6.0.  There's also a 140meg 
Rodime disk, and a big monochrome (1 bit/pixel) screen (The Big Picture).  

Yesterday we installed Lightspeed Pascal, and tried to run it.  The 
machine froze - the cursor (a stopwatch by then) stopped tracking
the mouse.  Nothing could change the state of the machine, and the 
power switch in back was useless - I had to unplug the machine.

First thing I did was delete that copy of Pascal.
I restored the system folder from backups a while ago, and then checked 
everything with Interferon - we're clean.  But some programs 
seize, some don't.
 
Working programs include FastBack, TeachText, and Finder.  Bombs include
MacWrite and Adobe Illustrator '88.

Does anyone have any ideas on this? Is it hardware or software?  ANY 
ideas would be appreciated.

Incidentally, I installed MacsBug to look at things, but the fonts come
out teeny-tiny.  Is there a way to get a bigger font out of the debugger?
the debugger?

-Andrew Glassner    glassner@xerox.com

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From: glassner@arisia.Xerox.COM (Andrew Glassner)
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Subject: Help wanted: Mac II seizing up
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Date: 1 Dec 88 00:00:44 GMT
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