Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ncar!umigw!umbio!ibiza!aem From: aem@ibiza.Miami.Edu (a.e.mossberg) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Looking for Computer Folklore Message-ID: <1373@umbio.MIAMI.EDU> Date: 6 Feb 89 22:47:49 GMT References: <7143@pyr.gatech.EDU> <532@geovision.UUCP> <4575@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM> <319@itcatl.UUCP> <2986@ficc.uu.net> Sender: netnews@umbio.MIAMI.EDU Reply-To: aem@Mthvax.Miami.Edu (a.e.mossberg) Organization: University of Miami Hertz Lab, Coral Gables, FL Lines: 24 In <2986@ficc.uu.net>, wrote: >The Compucolor-II computer (a 4K Z80 based system) from Intecolor was ^^^^^^^^^ wasn't it Intercolor? >deliberately brain-damaged to keep it from competing with their low-end >color terminals. It was possible to make the machine smoke from a simple >BASIC program: > FOR I=0 TO 255: OUT 6,I: NEXT >Apparently the CPU had some control over the power supply. You had to pull >the plug to keep it from smoking... just flipping off DC power wasn't >enough. That reminds me about the Commodore PET, you know, the one with the terrible keyboard. If you 'poke'd to a certain location, you destroyed the boot eprom, and you would have to take the machine in for service. aem a.e.mossberg aem@mthvax.miami.edu MIAVAX::AEM (Span) aem@umiami.BITNET (soon) Were there no women, men might live like gods. - Thomas Dekker