[TAG] cdrom problem

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Jason Creighton (androflux at softhome.net):

> Really, the only hardware I can think of that might be damaged by
> software would be some old fixed-frequency (right term?) monitors. What
> else was there?

Recently, there were some really bad "LG" (formerly Goldstar) CD-ROM
drives, but that episode was really a fluke.

(Occasionally, one hears rumours about software that somehow pokes
EEPROM chips so as to erase or overwrite them, but I can't cite details.)