That is a little more boring than I imagined, but I'm glad it's not
another 'totally true urban legend'.
I had imagined a design fault that fried logic circuits on the main board
and didn't know it was display related. Thanks for the info!
Regards,
Jeff
In <Pine.LNX.4.10.10101171342090.1231-100000_at_siconic.com>, on 01/17/01
at 06:06 PM, Sellam Ismail <foo_at_siconic.com> said:
>On Wed, 17 Jan 2001 THETechnoid_at_home.com wrote:
>> There used to be a poke on early Commodor Pets that would fry the
>> computer. At least I HEARD there was one. Anybody know if this is true?
>Yes, it was. I'm sure there is someone more knowledgeable that can
>comment on this, but apparently it had somethin to do with setting the
>refresh rate on the display to something it couldn't handle, and it would
> fry it.
>Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer
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