@streakmachine On it's predecessor, the PET, you could PEEK and POKE your way into a motherboard repair. Toggling the built in cassette motor relay off and on too fast and too many times would burn it out. One of the few systems I know of, (Aside from mode switching your analog monitor and blowing the flyback transformer up), where you could damage hardware via software.

@streakmachine On it's predecessor, the PET, you could PEEK and POKE your way into a motherboard repair.

Toggling the built in cassette motor relay off and on too fast and too many times would burn it out.

One of the few systems I know of, (Aside from mode switching your analog monitor and blowing the flyback transformer up), where you could damage hardware via software.

2017-05-22T16:11:57Z