File:Brain-virus.jpg
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English: Details of this photograph include (1) it is the hex dump of the boot sector of a floppy (A:) containing the first ever PC virus, Brain, (2) PC Tools Deluxe 4.22, a file manager and low-level editor, was being used (3) the PC was a 8088 running at 8 MHz and had 640 Kb of RAM (4) the graphics card was a CGA (4 colours at 320×200) |
| Date | circa 1989 |
| Source | Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons. |
| Author | Avinash Meetoo - avinash@noulakaz.net - http://www.noulakaz.net/ - Avinashm at en.wikipedia |
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- 2007-02-25 08:20 Avinashm 450×329×8 (114748 bytes) This photo was taken around 1989 (when I was 15-16) and, if you look properly, you?ll notice lots of cool little details (1) it is the hex dump of the boot sector of a floppy (A:) containg the first ever PC virus, Brain, (2) I was using PC Tools Deluxe
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| current | 07:52, 3 July 2021 | 1,238 × 646 (439 KB) | Worm&Virus | better quality |
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