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From: ksand@mapper.UUCP
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,comp.misc
Subject: Re: What the world needs now
Message-ID: <631@mapper.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 28-May-87 10:44:28 EDT
Article-I.D.: mapper.631
Posted: Thu May 28 10:44:28 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 30-May-87 11:03:54 EDT
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Reply-To: ksand@mapper.UUCP (Kent Sandvik - the minor super user)
Organization: UNISYS UNIX Support, Stockholm, SWEDEN
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Keywords: It's so simple to program a computer to explode
Xref: utgpu talk.bizarre:1946 comp.misc:572
Summary: ... is a computer that blows up.

>> ... is a piece of software that actually makes a computer blow up ...

Have you tried to increase the refresh rate of the computer screen in
the terminal's firmware?

Make an entry in the "Set-Up"-menu where the innocent user could switch
over from 50 och 60 Hz to maybe 400 Hz.

Somebody would have to make some experiments around this amount of
refresh rate - so the phosphorus starts to burn and the terminal
explodes in, let's say, 5 seconds.

An even better way is to make an ioctl-call that sounds great from the
user side of view - ex stty more_blips - and this programs the
actual terminal refresh rate to the disastrous one. Maybe something
for the UNIX SysV.4?

That's something for James Bond movies with exploding computers :-).

    *flames* >>Kent Sandvik

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