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From: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker)
Newsgroups: rec.humor,comp.misc
Subject: Re: Looking for Computer Folklore
Message-ID: <369@becker.UUCP>
Date: 16 Mar 89 23:28:38 GMT
References: <864@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> <2047@tank.uchicago.edu> <36549@vax1.tcd.ie> <669@maths.tcd.ie>
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In article <669@maths.tcd.ie> mlloyd@maths.tcd.ie (Michael Lloyd) writes:
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|result: one VERY BRIGHT SPOT in the middle of the screen somewhere, which if
|        left will burn clean through the monitor, causing irreprable damage.
|
|This contradicted the first law of such machines: nothing you can type at the
|keyboard could do any PHYSICAL damage to the machine.  I wonder if anyone
|else has examples of this sort of behaviour?  (not wishing to drag out
|an already overlong theme ;-) )
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	You can also do this in IBM PC's by zapping the registers in
	the display adapter to run at impossible speeds  - it can
	destroy the monitor in such a way that a fire is possible
	(melt the flyback transformer)...

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|Mike Lloyd, Dept of Statistics, |
|Trinity College, Dublin,        |      "COGITO, ERGO CHICO & ZEPPO"
|Ireland.                        |          Tonio K.
|(mlloyd@maths.tcd.ie)           |
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Cheers,
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