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Article #4363Re: Monitor Damage by Programming (was Stupid programming errors)
From: Frank Lemire
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 1990 05:02
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 1990 05:02
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I remember years ago being able to do something like you described
(having resistors burning, etc on your Compaq) on my high school's
Commodore Pet machines.
I used to have a list of what I called "Killer pokes" that you
could input to do very strange things to the monitor.. The
high-pitched buzzing wasn't enough for me.. I was able to get the
whole screen to compress to 1 pixel on the actual screen!
It was the whitest dot I've ever seen on a green monitor. I
wasn't cruel enough to leave it on to do some real damage, but
it was exciting at the time.
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)> Toronto, CA. <( INET: geac!torag!fra...@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu
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- Winston Smith in 1984.
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!mnetor!geac!lethe!yunexus!xrtll!frankl From: frankl@xrtll.uucp (Frank Lemire) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Monitor Damage by Programming (was Stupid programming errors) Keywords: First-Hand Experience Message-ID: <1990Sep19.050242.16802@xrtll.uucp> Date: 19 Sep 90 05:02:42 GMT References: <ben.2630@epmooch.UUCP> <3061.26e54065@cc.helsinki.fi> <7322@milton.u.washington.edu> <12727@asylum.SF.CA.US> <1990Sep12.221818.8391@tandem.com> Organization: XRTLL Systems, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Lines: 19 Posted: Wed Sep 19 06:02:42 1990 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit