Student Fails To Hack Into Computer, Sets It On Fire Instead

[septimus]

I once worked with mainframes that could be powered-down accidentally with a user-mode instruction. I Googled for it just now, getting a single hit:

@septimus

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(I have some boring stories of real incidents from a previous lifetime. For example, when early 370/165’s were retrofitted to support the MVCL instruction, some couldn’t handle the [del]activity[/del] higher storage-access rate and their power supplies crowbarred off!)