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Re: DOS all platforms


From: Matt Burnett <marukka () mac com>
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 18:01:59 -0600

I doubt that was true. First off to do that they would have written drivers
for a specific drive. Also if you open up a hard drive youll see that the
heads cant travel that far.

On 1/24/03 3:01 PM, "Mark Renouf" <mark () tweakt net> wrote:

Exibar wrote:

  Causing Physical damage to equipment????  Good luck....  although way back
when there was a program that would set the refresh rate on your monitor
very very high and it could cause the monitor to die....  Doesn't happen
anymore though :-)

I also recall rumours of a virus in the ~1995 time frame which would
cause overexcursion of the r/w heads in the hard drive, causing the
heads to crash into the side of the drive.

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