Re: Interesting one-line BASIC program

[Jake Featherston <Jake_Featherston@comcast.net>]

> > 10 A=INT(RND(1)*65535)+1:B=INT(RND(1)*256):POKE A,B:GOTO 10
>
> > Just sit back and watch the chaos....


> just as fun as:
>
> 10 for i = 0 to 65535
> 20 poke i,0
> 30 next i


That wouldn't work; you'd get an error  on the 257th repetition of the
i loop, when it attempted to Poke 256,256

> or wet your finger and start touching pins on chips on the motherboard

Yeah, but this program has the virtue of not harming your system.  It
all gets reset when you shut it off.  If it didn't, my old Franklin
Ace 1000 would have stopped working back in the 80s, when I ran this
program literally hundreds of times.  Most of the time nothing much
happens, but every so often, it really starts acting tweaky.  I would
have assumed most people still messing with Apple ][-series systems in
the year 2008 would be the sort who'd find this kind of fooling around
almost innately interesting (I actually expected others would have
been like "yeah, I tried that before too!")

You guys are a bunch of wet blankets!