2 Feb
2006
2 Feb
'06
4:29 p.m.
In article <11c909eb0602021253j3bf88d87w at mail.gmail.com>,
Pete Edwards <stimpy.u.idiot at gmail.com> writes:
On 02/02/06, Bert Thomas <bert at brothom.nl>
wrote:
Yes, its referred to as the "Killer Poke". There was also something
you could do on early IBM PC graphics adapaters where you could fry
the monitor by writing a zero value to a frequency register, IIRC.
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"You can't damage hardware by software"
This may be a false memory, but wasn't there a POKE on CBM Pets that would
fry the video hardware?