Re: ti-92 died and wont come back to life !!
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In article <cmaQlnW00YUn0=DX40@andrew.cmu.edu>,
Jonathan Todd Samuel <jsamuel+@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
>Generally, you can't do anything with software to physically
>damage hardware. So don't panic.
while this may be true for TIs, it's not true generally. setting
aside things like the HCF (Halt and Catch Fire) instruction in the
65xx series of processors, it is very easy to immolate a SVGA monitor
by misprogramming the controller. see alt.folklore.computers for
discussion of these sort of things.
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