https://www.theregister.com/2000/03/10/us_preacher_finds_demonpossessed_pcs/ https://www.theregister.com/2000/03/10/us_preacher_finds_dem... >"While the Comput

https://www.theregister.com/2000/03/10/us_preacher_finds_demonpossessed_pcs/ https://www.theregister.com/2000/03/10/us_preacher_finds_dem... >"While the Computer Age has ushered in many advances, it has also opened yet another door through which Lucifer and his minions can enter and corrupt men's souls," the paper quotes the Reverend Jim Peasboro, author of an upcoming book, The Devil in the Machine, as saying. Demons are able to possess anything with a brain, from a chicken to a human being. And today's thinking machines have enough space on their hard drives to accommodate Satan or his pals, the paper reports. Disk capacity is an issue, however. Only a PC built after 1985 has the storage capacity to house an evil spirit, the minister explained." <g> Here's the associated Weekly World News article, which in my opinion is way better (The Weekly World News was fake news, that's true and all -- but unlike today's media -- at least it was honest about being fake news! <g>): https://books.google.com/books?id=CPADAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA47&lpg=PA47&dq=Jim+Peasboro https://books.google.com/books?id=CPADAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA47&lpg=P... I believe that there was some quote to the effect that "Any machine with more than 256K -- could host evil and/or demonic spirits" <g>, but I can't find this quote on the web anymore... Still, I swear it was there, a long time ago! <g> Must be the ol' Orwellian "memory hole"... <g>