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In article <3061.2...@cc.helsinki.fi> mnyk...@cc.helsinki.fi writes:
>The original PC could control the voltage going to the monitor, I've
>heard, with similar results..

   Actually, what could (can) be done was to reprogram the video
controller chip to give an unexpected scan rate. This being before
Multisync monitors =8) the flyback transformer would start generating
lots of extra heat, and could eventually catch fire. (At least I think
it was the flyback. The flyback is the generic folklore monitor component,
anyway, after maybe the crt itself...) I think that at one time there was
even a virus written to do this. However, because you had to *wait* for the
heat to build up in the xformer, it took (I hear) about half an hour, with
the picture meanwhile completely unreadable, to do any permament damage, 
so this couldn't exactly be done subtly ...


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