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From: za011@zeus.unomaha.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Blowing up your 1950
Message-ID: <5415.275fef46@zeus.unomaha.edu>
Date: 8 Dec 90 01:36:38 GMT
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> Point being, nothing can instantly destroy your monitor.  Even if you
> could damage it, I don't think anything could be so severe as to do
> damage before you could turn it off.

    You're right in that nothing in software can instantly destroy a monitor,
but instantly doesn't always matter.  I remember reading an article about
computer viruses a couple of years back in which the author told of an IBM
clone lab at a university that was hit by a virus attack at night.  A number
of monitors actually burned, according to the writer.

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