Date   : Mon, 09 Aug 2010 21:25:20 +0100
From   : jumbos.bazzar@... (Mark Haysman)
Subject: Free Stuff Tranche III [Results]

>> 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? :-)

It's not a prema-death, but:

!&287=&EC004C

And a break, will make a Model B go berzerk, and you can't get out of it 
unless you turn it off.

One of the few things that I learnt at school that I actually remember!

Mark.