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From: jamesth@microsoft.UUCP (James THIELE)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: A new virus that physically damages your hard disk?
Message-ID: <71828@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 12 Apr 91 20:23:48 GMT
References: <1CE00001.cjpdlcx@tbomb.ice.com>
Reply-To: jamesth@microsoft.UUCP (James THIELE)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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In article <1CE00001.cjpdlcx@tbomb.ice.com> time@ice.com writes:
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>I know of no way for a piece of software to *physically* damage a
>generic drive. There may be some unfortunate drive someplace that
>can be physically damaged by some sequence of requests, but I seriously
>doubt it!!!

Perhaps not for a Mac, but back in those bygone days when men were men,
women were women, and disk drives were as big as washing machines (say,
the '60s and '70s), lots of mainframe computers were able to make their
disk drives walk across the machine room ("Machine *room*?? You mean that
they built computers that didn't fit on a desktop?"  "Yep.").  Sometimes
they did a lot of damage, including damaging themselves.

Perhaps this still happens - lately I've been trying to avoid
mainframes.  :-)

James Thiele
microsoft!jamesth