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Re: Re: DOS all platforms


From: ldreamer <ldreamer () pisem net>
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 08:06:33 +1300

On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 05:39, Michael Cecil wrote:
At 06:49 AM 1/25/2004, Patrick J Okui said:
 >On Sat, 24 Jan 2004, Jonathan A. Zdziarski wrote:
 >
 >> I heard of a bet going between a student and IBM many many years ago to
 >> write a virus to cause physical damage.  Apparently the student was able
 >> to use harmonic resonance and the hard disk drive to physically shake
 >> the PC off the desk.
 >
 >would anyone have links to this article?

It's one of the anecdotes in the book version of the Jargon File called The 
Hacker's Dictionary, IIRC.

Mayhaps this would be DOS for all platforms ?
http://www.voltsamps.com/pages/projects/herf005/

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LDreamer

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