Re: Delete All Your Files

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From: lan... Landon Dyer
Date: Sat, 01 Sep 1990 13:55

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> Okay, folks:  Have you ever had a bug in an innocent little program
> that really did delete all your files?  Reformat the hard disk?  Send
> rude mail to your mother?  (Well, probably not that.)

This happened to a friend of mine, several years ago:

A long evening of hacking on his Atari 800 video game ended on a
sour note when his program crashed by jumping to the disk-format
routine in the OS ROM.  You can imagine his puzzled expression, soon
changing into enlightenment, when the drive, without warning, began
that distinctive "tickticktick..."

-- 
Landon Dyer (lan...@apple.com)  :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: making the merry-go-round SPIN FASTER
Apple Computer, Inc.            :: so that everyone has to HOLD ON TIGHTER
NOT THE VIEWS OF APPLE COMPUTER :: just to keep from being THROWN TO THE WOLVES

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From: lan...@Apple.COM (Landon Dyer)
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Subject: Re: Delete All Your Files
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Date: 1 Sep 90 13:55:04 GMT
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