Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!nuchat!peter
From: peter@nuchat.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Smoke On The Water (was: Re: DNET ... who's doing what?)
Message-ID: <849@nuchat.UUCP>
Date: 24 Mar 88 02:47:57 GMT
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Summary: Except for Dave???

In article ... kim@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Kim DeVaughn) writes:
> [...about a memory test that smoked boards...]

There was once a personal computer called the Compucolor II, produced by
Intecolor, that could be made to produce this effect on demand.

From BASIC.

10 FOR I = 0 to 255
20 OUT 6,I
30 NEXT I

I don't know what port 6 was hooked up to, and I never had the guts to run
this test to destruction, but it did produce high temperatures inside
the box, complete with smoke and burning smells. You had to pull the plug
to get it to stop: the DC power switch didn't seem to be effective in
autodestruct mode.

We used to joke about using this feature in a security system.
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