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#Printer port trouble

    02-Oct-91 18:50:24
Fm: Jim Gotwald 74346,3665
To: Don Curtis/SYSOP 76703,4321
I was experiencing a "RECOVERABLE ALERT" error occasionally (it looked like a GURU but didn't lock the system. The meditation # was 7FFFFFFE and the address varied but 274xxxx was common. I haven't seen this one in a while though. My system clock seems okay, it has run fast since the day I bought the system (gains about 2 minutes a month) but that has not changed. Might the "TICK" signal from the power supply be weak and causing the problem? I noticed that it is a signal source for the parallel 8520 but not the serial 8520. Where else is TICK used?