[Coco] Question

[Robert Gault]

There is no good answer for this except to say there clearly is a 
problem with the disk operating system. What I think you meant to ask is 
with correctly functioning hardware and ROM software, could something in 
the Basic program cause this. The answer to that is no.

Some things to check for are oxidation on the lands where the disk 
controller plugs into either Coco or MPI. Power supplies in MPI or disk 
cases for low or random voltage. Bad ribbon cable connecting disk 
controller to disk drive. Adjustment of disk for RPM using either a 
program or strobe pattern.

Is this specific copy of the program the only one causing problems or 
will any copy of the program behave this way?

Ober Bower wrote:
> I have a friend who has been having a problem with basic programs he has
> written and saved to disk. He said the programs will randomly load with
> one line number and the whole program on that one line. What are some
> causes to this problem?
> 
> Thanks,
> Ober
> 
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