28 Feb
2023
28 Feb
'23
4:35 a.m.
On Sun, 26 Feb 2023, John Cowan wrote:
However, most configuration errors can't reduce
your hardware to a
useless pile of junk, whereas older CRT monitors could definitely be
destroyed if the configuration was too far off nominal.
Not to mention MS-DOS malware that used to set the horizontal deflection
rate really high and creating massive inductive spikes, or the vertical
deflection to zero and burning out the phosphor...
-- Dave