Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!husc6!cmcl2!phri!roy
From: roy@phri.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: What the world needs now [ is an exploding computer ]
Message-ID: <2725@phri.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 25-May-87 14:41:36 EDT
Article-I.D.: phri.2725
Posted: Mon May 25 14:41:36 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 27-May-87 06:48:20 EDT
References: <12067@topaz.rutgers.edu> <910@killer.UUCP> <15@gordon.UUCP>
Reply-To: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY)
Lines: 13
Keywords: Originally from a friend
Summary: Blowing fuses on v6 Unix


	I can't find the quote, but I remember something in the v6 manual
about (literally) blowing a fuse if you selected more than one DECTAPE
drive at the same time.

	On a more esoteric note, I remember having a conversation with
somebody (Alan Lappin?) many years ago about writing a program to seek a
disk arm in such a way as to set up harmonic vibrations in the drive and
cause it to blow up; sort of an electronic Galloping Girdie.
-- 
Roy Smith, {allegra,cmcl2,philabs}!phri!roy
System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute
455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016