bricked
v.— «Cisco stopped allowing downloads from their website and leaked the instructions for flashing from the rom monitor after a few tens of thousands of end users bricked their routers using the wrong version, though.» —“Re: Help—is my Cisco 678 a paperweight now?” by Eric Jorgensen Usenet: xmission.general Feb. 6, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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