>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?
The POKE was used to speed up the screen on the early PETs
and the Commodore 'fixed' the design in later PETs causing the POKE
to do things the display hardware wasn't able to cope with.
Performing this POKE on a later PET will permenantly damage the
system after just a few seconds, though you'll definately know if a
program you're running performs it. Unfortunately, quite a few early
programs use it, as it was widely circulated in magazine articles and
such.
Jeff
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Received on Wed Jan 17 2001 - 18:22:26 GMT