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- From: heinz@edohwg.adsp.sub.org (Heinz Wrobel)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: New hardware reference guide?
- Message-ID: <heinz.04mw@edohwg.adsp.sub.org>
- Date: 14 Nov 92 13:34:11 GMT
- References: <BxAMtH.Aos@cck.coventry.ac.uk> <1950@lysator.liu.se> <1992Nov13.023341.27459@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de> <Bxnwno.6ns@cck.coventry.ac.uk>
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- In article <Bxnwno.6ns@cck.coventry.ac.uk> csg019@cch.coventry.ac.uk (-~=Zaphod=~-) writes:
- >It would work on any amiga with the custom chips at location $DFF000.
-
- With _what_ custom chips. Who tells you that an Amiga 5000 or 6000 has
- custom chips at all?
-
- >>d) risks hardware damage with things connected to the serial or parallel port.
- >
- >How could it *dammage* hardware?
- >Your not one of them guys that think that some viruses write to the disk
- >label are you? :)
-
- Just setup pins that are supposed to be inputs as outputs. The drivers
- for the line will fight and sooner or later die. You could do that with an
- old CBM8032. I'm pretty sure you could create a situation like that with
- the Amiga, too. Even by accident.
-
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