🚀 go-pugleaf

xxiaoye@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Xiaoxia Ye) writes:

>I pressed the restart button in the sys error dialog box it didn't work.  After
>the hard drive chugged along for a while I got a sad mac code 0F00A.

All of the sad mac codes are nicely documented (finally) in Dan Allen's new
book, "On Macintosh Programming: Advanced Techniques" [addison-wesley].
Consider this a plug and a strong recommendation, even though I'm not
through reading it yet.

0F00A is a line 1111 error. The system is dying when trying to trap through
a trap vector. Now, I'm assuming that you've tried booting it from a known
good floppy disk and proven it's not a corrupted System file (if that isn't
true, try it) -- if you're getting a line 1111 trap failure and it's not the
software, it implies that the CPU chip has decided to die. If it works for a
while after being turned off, that normally means the failure is heat
related: once it warms up to operating temperature, it stops working again.

Sound to me like it's time to head to the shop.

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Rumour has it that Larry Wall, author of RN, is a finalist in the race for
the Nobel Peace Prize for his invention of the kill file.