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Message-ID: <3E31A98E.70909@tweakt.net> From: mark at tweakt.net (Mark Renouf) Subject: DOS all platforms Exibar wrote: > Causing Physical damage to equipment???? Good luck.... although way back > when there was a program that would set the refresh rate on your monitor > very very high and it could cause the monitor to die.... Doesn't happen > anymore though :-) I also recall rumours of a virus in the ~1995 time frame which would cause overexcursion of the r/w heads in the hard drive, causing the heads to crash into the side of the drive.