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From: dbstmars@dahlia.waterloo.edu (Dan St.Mars)
Newsgroups: rec.humor,rec.humor.d,comp.misc
Subject: Re: Looking for Computer Folklore
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Date: 10 Mar 89 04:47:02 GMT
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In article <36549@vax1.tcd.ie> belld@vax1.tcd.ie writes:
>
>		I remember hearing that an early version of the Commodore
>Pet would catch fire if certain addresses had certain contents. Something
>about the clock being forced to run at too high a speed. (Can anyone confirm/
>deny this?)
>-- 
I wouldn't be too surprised.  In school we used to fire in a few POKEs that
make the screen shake along with a high pitched squeel.  We usually got 
dumped on for it (with good reason :-) ).


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Dan St.Mars               University Of Waterloo          dbstmars@dahlia.
Applied Math            Waterloo, Ontario,  Canada            waterloo.edu
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