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From: youngm@ihuxv.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari
Subject: trouble with 800
Message-ID: <480@ihuxv.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 22-Jun-83 17:23:32 EDT
Article-I.D.: ihuxv.480
Posted: Wed Jun 22 17:23:32 1983
Date-Received: Fri, 24-Jun-83 08:20:37 EDT
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My Atari 800 has a strange, and seemingly transient,
problem.  

Sometimes (nearly always) the TV screen suddenly becomes
filled with interference--a screen-wide stripe of fuzzy-
looking stuff which makes the display under the stripe
hard to read.  The condition usually becomes progressively
worse, but I can stop it temporarily by opening/closing
the cartridge compartment door a few times (booting the
system repeatedly).  

This is a very disturbing problem, but happily it is the
only one that I have had with my system.  Does someone
out there know what is going on?


				-- Mark Young
				   Bell Telephone Laboratories
				   Naperville, Il