Mythbusters

Bert Thomas wrote: That is for sure. In my teens, I had a friend who got the IBM convertable (the luggable one with the monochrome monitor) from a Computerland. He was screwing around with POKE in basic and poke'd a value somewhere into CGA-land, saw some pretty squiggles for about 3 seconds, then >poof< and the smell of ozone. Went back to Computerland, but they told him that there was no way that could have happened and they weren't going to repair it. So my friend, with salesman watching with one eye from across the room, walks over to another one on display, takes the diskette out, boots into BASIC, writes a 1-line program, and Salesman grew extremely irate, got the attention of the manager, who said they'd honor the warranty if the kid would stop doing that. -- Jim Leonard (trixter at oldskool.org) http://www.oldskool.org/ Help our electronic games project: http://www.mobygames.com/ Or check out some trippy MindCandy at http://www.mindcandydvd.com/ A child borne of the home computer wars: http://trixter.wordpress.com/