GF> On (29 Dec 96) David Ames wrote to Peter Lavender...
GF>
GF>  DA> * Replying to a message originally to Harry Ahlgren on
GF> 29-11-96
GF>
GF> PL> Hiya Harry,
GF>  DA> PL>
GF> PL> And thus Harry let it be known to Gordon:
GF>  DA> PL>
GF> PL>   GF>> As a Technican when apple2 where the big sellers....
GF> PL> I've never
GF> PL>   GF>> have seen a motherboard damaged by a torjen or
GF> virus....
GF> clip.............
GF>  DA> about the monitor.  According to the X-windows manual it
GF> is possable
GF>  DA> to distroy your monitor by setting up X-windows
GF> incorrectly...
GF>
GF> You are saying that a person is going to look at a screen that
GF> is
GF> rolling or is just unreadable for the amount of time it takes
GF> for
GF> the power transistors to over heat and fail?  Even with the old
GF> IBM  mono monitor it took about one minute for this to happen,
GF> sufficient time to turn off the system.
What if no one was sitting in front of the monitor?  How are a virus which 
activates if there is no activity for a few hours.
Anyway - You have just proven the point that software can distroy hardware...
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