Talk:Getting Quickbasic

The Geek: Did someone actually get their printer set on fire because of the OHR and QB 7.1?

Bob: Nah, just a humorous disclaimer of warranty there. A printer would already have to be pretty darn defective before you could set it on fire with data :)

Andrusi: It is now my goal in life to locate such a printer so I can use QB to incinerate it.

The Geek: Ooh, can I help? You know, I've heard that it's possible to create a program for the VIC 20 (or was it the PET?) that will turn the tape drive on and off so fast that the tape drive/control circuit burns out!

TMC: Not quite a fire, I've had defective QB code start my printer printing out blank pages of paper while it crashes windows :)

Mike: Just for reference, I got that joke from a book on PERL (a joke in a Perl book? Impossible!). It said something like "If you recieve this error, it's gonna core dump soon. You'll be lucky if it doesn't set your laser printer on fire in the process."