🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <DAVEG.90S...@near.cs.caltech.edu> da...@near.cs.caltech.edu (Dave Gillespie) writes:
 >How many times have we all warned beginning programmers to cross their
 >t's and dot their i's:  "Store through an uninitialized pointer, and
 >the computer could do anything---it could even run amok and delete all
 >your files!"
 >
 >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.)

The previously mentioned disk editor aside, it was very, VERY easy to have
an assembler program start writing bytes to the memory locations containing
DOS 3.3 on an Apple ][, resulting in disk motor noise and more often than
not a scrambled, if not completely re-initialized disk.  Sometimes you
were lucky, though, and only the disk's VTOC would be trashed :-(.  Funny
how if you trashed a disk sector, it was usually track $11, sector 0...
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