[Gllug] Old i386 with "Winchester" drive

Tethys tet at createservices.com
Thu Mar 25 09:29:03 UTC 2004


Christopher Hunter writes:

>That's right.  I used to work on machines with Winchesters, and one of the 
>first viruses I ever saw played a tune using the drive motors (they were 
>quite loud!).....  Didn't do much for the reliability of the drive!

Legend has it that there was a similar piece of code that played
"Daisy daisy" on a Commodore 1541 floppy, but I never managed to
get hold of a copy...

Tet
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