In computer jargon, a killer poke is a method of inducing hardware damage on a machine via insertion of invalid values (see poke) into a memory-mapped[?] control register; used especially of various fairly well-known tricks on bitty boxes[?] without hardware memory management (such as the IBM PC and Commodore PET) that can overload analog electronics in the monitor.
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