17 Jan
2001
17 Jan
'01
5:06 p.m.
That is a little more boring than I imagined, but I'm glad it's not
another 'totally true urban legend'.
I had imagined a design fault that fried logic circuits on the main board
and didn't know it was display related. Thanks for the info!
Regards,
Jeff
In <Pine.LNX.4.10.10101171342090.1231-100000(a)siconic.com>om>, on 01/17/01
at 06:06 PM, Sellam Ismail <foo(a)siconic.com> said:
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001 THETechnoid(a)home.com wrote:
> There used to be a poke on early Commodor Pets
that would fry the
> computer. At least I HEARD there was one. Anybody know if this is true?
Yes, it was. I'm sure there is someone more
knowledgeable that can
comment on this, but apparently it had somethin to do with setting the
refresh rate on the display to something it couldn't handle, and it would
fry it.
Sellam Ismail
Vintage Computer
Festival
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