Date   : Mon, 09 Aug 2010 20:03:21 +0200
From   : rick@... (Rick Murray)
Subject: Free Stuff Tranche III [Results]

On 09/08/2010 19:25, Mike Tomlinson wrote:

> Someone in the class at my tech college (many moons ago) discovered that
> POKeing a certain location on the Commode Pet caused it to go up in
> smoke.  Once that got around, that was the end of them.

Mmm, I wonder what that was? You can upset a Beeb (slightly) by putting 
*Motor On and *Motor Off in a loop. You can upset a monitor (sometimes 
terminally) by messing with the video chip. You might be able to kill a 
floppy drive (like *Motor, seek to track 80 and back in a loop), but can 
you kill a Beeb from software alone? Or was the PET just a bit naff? :-)


Best wishes,

Rick.

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