d88-jwa@nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte) (07/17/90)
Finally back on the net...
My Mac IIfx (some of you may remember complaints about it
being DOA - well, I got a new one) has this habit of freezing,
deadlocking, crashing, quitting applications, &c...
Sometimes when I start up, the finder just restarts itself
(mounts volumes, redraws the screen &c) over and over again.
Sometimes when I compile, I get "Illegal declaration error"
or "Illegal token" in the THINK header files. (I haven't
touched them, and when I retry it runs smooth)
This almost never happens with applications/documents on the
external SyQuest drive, which led me to suspect the internal
80MB Quantum. Looking at the drive, I see it has it's own
internal terminators left, and no "T-shaped" terminators
like some people have talked about here. Since the Mac IIfx
requires capacitive termination as well, I wonder if this
internal terminatino really provides this ? Or has the
factory in Ireland missed out on this ? (Yes, it's made in
Ireland, so it's not shipped across the world as someone
suggested might have been the case)
Replacing the Finder or System or entirely reinstalling doesn't
help either. I really should concentrate on refining MacNetHack
instead of swearing over incompatible hardware, so if anyone
has ANY informatino on how to fix this, I'd be MOST grateful.
If there is a solution, I'll follow up to the net (of course)
h+@nada.kth.se
Jon W{tte, Stockholm, Sweden, h+@nada.kth.se