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From: cs4344af@evax.arl.utexas.edu (Fuzzy Fox)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: My 64's Quirks
Message-ID: <1991Mar27.102817.17893@evax.arl.utexas.edu>
Date: 27 Mar 91 10:28:17 GMT
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Organization: Computer Science Engineering Univ. of Texas at Arlington
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In article  tjlee@iastate.edu (Tom Lee) writes:
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>	My C-64 sometimes resets when I turn on the disk drive or the printer.

This is something that shouldn't happen, but does on some machines.  The
RESET line on your computer actually runs out the serial port to the
other devices on your system.  The idea is that when you reset your
computer, the disk drives and printers should reset also, and this is
what happens.  There is supposed to be a diode which will prevent the
disk drive from resetting the computer, but some 64's have a weak diode,
and it does not always prevent the reset signal from getting through.
So, some serial devices can actually reset your computer.

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