Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!mandrill!neoucom!wtm From: wtm@neoucom.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.att Subject: Re: 7300 getty window problems Message-ID: <810@neoucom.UUCP> Date: Thu, 3-Dec-87 23:01:33 EST Article-I.D.: neoucom.810 Posted: Thu Dec 3 23:01:33 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 6-Dec-87 22:48:05 EST References: <198@uncle.UUCP> <6319@ncoast.UUCP> Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine Lines: 44 Summary: I use a remote printer Brandon mentions that his printer caused a preculiar slow motion effect similar to what I had accompanied by the "too many windows" message. I have a printer set for remote printing via uucp on neoucom's imagen 2400, so I don't have anything currently attacted to my Centronics port. The had the peculiar slow motion effect once since I removed the one additional escape-hatch getty. The only job running at the time was vi, and I had been using vi for about 10 minutes. Neoucom had just finished a big uucp transfer just as I began vi. Of course, the necessary daemons were running too. So far my system has been up since Nov 21 (knock on wood) and there haven't been any of those weird happenings since then. I really haven't changed anything radical (other than temporarily unloading The STORE! from my disk). Perhaps, the machine was just burning-in for the fist few weeks and needed to make friends with me. About the only other thing I can think of is that for the first few weeks, the electrolytic caps in the power supply were unstable. Judging from the date-code stickers inside my machine, it was sitting in a warehouse someplace for about a year before I got it. In that time the filter caps might have degraded. Apparently, the 72 meg (er, I mean 67 meg) drive was popped into the machine just before it shipped from AT&T last month. I used to manage a student lab with about a dozen Apple II computers. Almost every Apple we received crashed repeatedly for the first few days, and then would be fine for several years there after. It must have been filter caps, as the power supply light blinked and chirp! chirp! would be briefly emitted (presumably) from the switching regulator xformer core. I'm getting almost bold enought to put the escape-hatch back in and see what happens. Thanks to all the Net People that have written with their suggestions. Happy holidays, Bill