A recipe for inducing hardware damage on a machine via insertion of invalid values (see poke
?) into a memory-mapped
? control
register; used especially of various fairly well-known tricks on [bitty box]
?es without hardware memory management (such as the
IBM PC and Commodore
? PET) that can overload analog electronics in the monitor.
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