RE: Worst error messages of all time

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From: mikk... snopes
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 1990 18:21

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Back when I got my first Atari 400 computer, Atari BASIC produced error
messages such as:

  Error 13 at line 1120

and you had to dig out the book and look up what Error 13 was (e.g.,
out of memory).  The explanation accompanying Error 0 was "Power not on".
I've always wondered just how it was that anybody could ever run into that
particular error.

- snopes

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Subject: RE: Worst error messages of all time
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