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From: jcz@sas.UUCP (John Carl Zeigler)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,comp.misc
Subject: Re: What the world needs now
Message-ID: <239@sas.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 28-May-87 00:12:26 EDT
Article-I.D.: sas.239
Posted: Thu May 28 00:12:26 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 30-May-87 07:48:25 EDT
References: <12067@topaz.rutgers.edu>
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.,Cary NC,25712
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Summary: computers that blow up
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In article <12067@topaz.rutgers.edu>, trudel@topaz.rutgers.edu (Jonathan D.) writes:
> 
> ... is a piece of software that actually makes a computer blow up just
> like in the movies.  This is long overdue.  "Lay" people are extremely



I have a friend who had a very early Commodore pet that if you
executed the PEEKs and POKEs to the right address set up
some sort of interference with the yoke that actually caused the
thing to smoke!!   We called it the Halt-and-Catch-Fire routine.


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