#killerpoke

"The so-called Fast Print or Killer Poke has much been talked about. It is a Commodore BASIC Poke command that is supposed to be able to destroy a PET computer."

"In computer jargon, a killer poke is a method of inducing hardware damage (i.e., actual physical, irreversible damage) on a machine and/or its peripherals by the insertion of invalid values, via e.g. BASIC's POKE command, into a memory-mapped control reg