Date   : Sun, 05 Nov 2006 22:50:26 +0000 (GMT)
From   : info@... (Sprow)
Subject: Master ET

In article <454E6460.3070904@...>,
   Alex Taylor <astravan@...> wrote:
> Ian Wolstenholme wrote:
> > I have the same real-time clock problem with one of my FileStore 
>
> Which one is the clock chip?

146818.

> It changed after I posted my first message. I'd left the machine running 
> a program which displayed the time in random positions on the screen; 
> when I next checked it, the time was frozen and garbled. Now if I do a 
> *TIME or PRINT TIME$, it locks the machine up

Press Escape. Does it say "Escape"? If so, press CTRL-C.
The problem is that the TIME$ string contains a CTRL-B, which enables the
printer and the rest of the string fills the (tiny) printer buffer. Escape
flushes the buffer and CTRL-C disables the printer.

> Trying to set TIME$ doesn't seem to help.

Check syntax, including punctuation,
Sprow.