On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 10:44:35PM +0100, Kenn Humborg wrote:
> Oh dear... Back to 'crappy software can damage your hardware'.
> Was is the C64 or the BBC Micro that could produce smoke with
> just the wrong sequence of instructins?
Never heard of either of those, but the Commodore PET (64's ancestor) could
allegedly by appropriate wrong programming of a CRTC chip.
Regards,
Niall
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