20 Mar
1999
20 Mar
'99
2:40 a.m.
I have an AMIBIOS "Burn-IN". I've reset it with the "clear BIOS
jumper",
left the battery out for three days, and still no serial ports.--
-Jason Willgruber
(roblwill(a)usaor.net)
ICQ#: 1730318
<http://members.tripod.com/general_1>
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-----Original Message-----
From: Chuck McManis <cmcmanis(a)mcmanis.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Date: Friday, March 19, 1999 9:11 PM
Subject: Re: OT: Re: Security question (sort of)
At 08:46 PM 3/19/99 -0800, Sellam wrote:
"modern" computers have writable BIOS "roms." Malevolent crackers are
writing bombs these days that scribble bits in nasty places in your BIOS.
One of the worst is called "last place AWARD" that destroys an AWARD BIOS
and resets your computer. No bios, no boot, no way to flash a new bios
without some fairly specialized equipment (to do in circuit Flash
programming.)
--Chuck