"NSM" writes:

"James Sweet" wrote in message
news:B%%Gd.10098$Os6.4438@trnddc08...

| Holy crap, calm down, I stated clearly NOT to do this, as in DO NOT TRY
THIS
...
| That said, I've had several "protected" unmodified devices go up in smoke
| before, a few that if I hadn't caught in time quite likely would have
...

I used to teach Unix to people whose first exposure to a computer system it
was. I always used to preface my lesson by telling them that it wasn't like
Star Trek, nothing they could do would make the computer explode in flames.
I stopped after one terminal emitted smoke one time (resistor burnt up)!

As long as they don't accidentally run the "Execute Programmer" instruction.

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