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I remember back in 1998 when I was in a strong discussion on how software couldn't damage hardware: no matter what you did, you wouldn't be able to damage hardw

I remember back in 1998 when I was in a strong discussion on how software couldn't damage hardware: no matter what you did, you wouldn't be able to damage hardware with your bits. Yes, those who said that are long gone. Me, and the few that said it was doable (and did, moving those 5"1/4 floopies drive beyond the heads' limits), are here, watching the news...

bewo001 4y ago
Well, early XFree86 had strong warnings that wrong settings could result in monitor damage (which made configuring X11 even more daunting). Nothing new under the sun.
- asddubs 4y ago
  and way back when, you could just tell a hard drive to essentially destroy itself
- anthk 4y ago
  30-70h, 50-168v. Correct settings for my CRT back in the day.
rsynnott 4y ago
Whoever was claiming that in 1998 was wrong, tho. It was actually a fair bit easier back then; in particular CRT monitors could react very badly to bad signals.