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Linux during the mid to late 90s (Windows 95 and 98 era)
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How wrong did you have to be to break your monitor? Because I'm positive I got it very wrong a whole lot of times and never managed that.
By the late 90's most monitors were smart enough to detect when sync speed was too far off and not try to display an image.
It was the old monitors that only supported a single or fixed set of scan rates that you had to worry about damaging. Some could be very picky and others were more tolerant.
Thank goodness I had a newer monitor then, because I would definitely have toasted several.
I managed to make mine do some very worrying noises, but none of my monitors broke either, even though the bandwidth I based my calculations on was often kinda made up.