Terminal
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Headroom Mainframe Service 68k
(C) 1985-1987 Datatronics Corp.
System Date:
Sun Mar 24 23:42:53 EDT 2013
Excuse me. That
happens sometimes in my old age. I
might occasionally belch out some esoteric jargon. At this point, IÕm just thankful that IÕve always come back
from the odd hiccup – Ònull pointer assignment,Ó Òabnormal program
terminationÓ or maybe Òparity error.Ó
My hardware isnÕt getting any younger and I can feel it.
It isnÕt like the old days. Believe it or not, I was once state-of-the-art. My Motorola 12.5MHz 68000
microprocessor, my eight megabytes of random access memory, my twenty-megabyte
hard disk, my own T1 line, all the most advanced technology – not that I
wish to brag. But I used to be the
news feed server for Digiscape. We
were one of the most popular dial-in services in the area, with thousands of
subscribers. The Challenger
disaster, the election of President George Bush, the war in Afghanistan where
the Soviets will see their Vietnam – I was the source. I remember the wildfires in Yellowstone
and I remember when Baby Jessica fell down the well. I even knew who shot J.R.
That lasted years until these switching networks came
barging onto the scene.
Communications just seem so impersonal today. In the past, a connection was one-on-one. Someone would call in and make the
conscious effort to connect. It
isnÕt like these flippant packets today that bounce in and out. WhereÕs the beef? I guess I just come from a time when
relationships meant more than a quick glance.
But after Digiscape closed, I found a new home. An older gentleman purchased me at the
auction for a couple hundred bucks and set me up in the high school. He was a very tech-savvy guy and still
very sharp in his retirement. I hear
his heyday was back in the CB radio era, designing those dashboard gadgets that
kept everyone truckinÕ. But I was
soon adopted by the schoolÕs computer club. I hosted the ÒChess CornerÓ BBS, but that didnÕt get much
traffic. The favorite was the other
BBS, ÒDragonÕs Lair.Ó Those kids
had a lot of fun for a while, and I remember one with real promise. The SysOp and I spent a lot of time
together. But that all dwindled
down after the next generation took the reigns. I started seeing so much crude 256-color pornography and
other questionable content. I
canÕt tell you how many copies I had of the ÒAnarchist cookbook.Ó It was just
Unimplemented
A-Line Instruction
PC:
00050008 SR: 2701 [t.S..111...xnzvC]
An:
ACB979F0 FFC00000 0010EFD8 0000000C 00003DC4 00003D45 007FFFD8 007F42C0
Dn:
00000047 00000047 D2D2D2D2 D3D3D3D3 D4D4D4D4 0000000F 00000000 00005606
00050008:
A1FF
DC.W
0xA1FF
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Headroom Mainframe Service 68k
(C) 1985-1987 Datatronics Corp.
System Date:
Sun Mar 24 23:45:55 EDT 2013
Oh, excuse me.
You know, IÕd ask someone to put in a service order, because I am really
not feeling right. I lost a power
supply fan a while back, and all the parts in my power section have been
cooking ever since. That is never a
good thing. My power supply is
full of capacitors that maintain and stabilize my supply voltages. This heat is particularly bad for them,
and I can really feel my insides quivering. Too bad no one cares anymore, because I could realLy use
that servi
Illegal
instruction at 0x00060000
PC:
00060000 SR: 2704 [t.S..111...xnZvc]
An:
0FFC0000 FFFFFFFF 00005D51 00005D39 4000A004 00003B14 00005D15 007FFC0A
Dn:
4460EC72 0010EFD8 D7D7D7D7 80000EB4 0FFC0000 FFFFFFFF FFFFFFFF 0FFC0000
00060000:
0005
DC.W 0x0005
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Headroom Mainframe Service 68k
(C) 1985-1987 Datatronics Corp.
System Date:
Sun Mar 24 23:46:36 EDT 2013
Bad VOLTge rIPPL.
bE CApacfF L. twICE sixy
HURtz.
Access
Error: FS=4, Physical bus error on
instruction fetch
PC:
5C00005C SR: 2708 [t.S..111...xNzvc]
An:
000EA838 89000000 000100EE 00000EC0 00003D4C 00003D38 71FFE269 007FEEC0
Dn:
FFFFFF82 89000000 7900005C 7DFFE2B0 CA00005C 0000000F 8979FF40 FFFFFF40
5C00005C:
FFFF
DC.W
0xFFFF
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Headroom Mainframe Service 68k
(C) 1985-1987 Datatronics Corp.
System Date:
Sun Mar 24 23:46:39 EDT 2013
Access
Error: FS=4, Physical bus error on
instruction fetch
PC:
0FFC0000 SR: 2704 [t.S..111...xnZvc]
An:
40000000 40000000 00005D51 00005D39 00005D15 00005D39 007FFFC0 007FFFC0
Dn:
00000000 0000000C ACBAC3F0 D0D0D0D0 00000000 00000047 00000001 00000065
Access
Error: FS=C, Physical bus error on
operand read
PC:
FFE08854 SR: 2704 [t.S..111...xnZvc]
An:
0FFC0000 40000000 00005D51 00005D39 00000EB4 00003B14 00005D15 007FFFC0
Dn:
00000000 00000000 ACBAC3F0 00000001 0FFC0000 00000002 00000001 0FFC0000
FFE08854:
3010
MOVE.W (A0),D0
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