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Samsung on fridge cert error: Someone tried to view 'unsavoury content' in middle of John Lewis

Simon Harris
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Re: Amateur "hacker" ?

"in fact fatally"

The 'diagnostics' didn't hit the CRT line-scan frequency registers did they?

I remember you could kill an IBM monochrome monitor if you did that (admission... I accidentally did it once writing some graphics software!). Apparently you could do the same thing with Commodore PETs.

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