On Mar 27, 9:36 pm, "Peter Watson" 
wrote:
> "sicklittlemonkey"  wrote in message
>
> news:ed9ceff0-4fec-42c8-bb68-8d88e08683ba{at}u10g2000prn.googlegroups.com...
>
> > On Mar 26, 9:44 pm, Jake Featherston 
> > wrote:
> >> I came up with this in 1984 or '85.  Its a lot of fun.  Sometimes not
> >> much happens, but occasionally you get some really peculiar and
> >> unexpected results.  Here it is:
>
> >> 10 A=INT(RND(1)*65535)+1:B=INT(RND(1)*256):POKE A,B:GOTO 10
>
> >> Just sit back and watch the chaos....
>
> > I'd eject all disks before running this.
>
> That was exactly the first thought that crossed my mind too!

It's okay - the law of irony in entropy states there'll only be a
problem if the disks contain data that's yet to be backed up

Matt
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