Re: Re: DOS all platforms

[Michael Cecil <macecil () comcast net>]

At 06:49 AM 1/25/2004, Patrick J Okui said:
>On Sat, 24 Jan 2004, Jonathan A. Zdziarski wrote:
>
>> I heard of a bet going between a student and IBM many many years ago to
>> write a virus to cause physical damage.  Apparently the student was able
>> to use harmonic resonance and the hard disk drive to physically shake
>> the PC off the desk.
>
>would anyone have links to this article?

It's one of the anecdotes in the book version of the Jargon File called The 
Hacker's Dictionary, IIRC.

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