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Exploring the beauty of retro electronics (Gallery)
02-24-2018, 04:36 PM
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RE: Exploring the beauty of retro electronics (Gallery)
(02-24-2018 02:30 PM)rprosperi Wrote:  One of our earliest program goals was to make the teletype machine wait enough time that the next class began and then it would start beeping randomly.

Ah, pranks in the good old days.

We used to take the dumb terminals offline into local mode and put blinking attributes on areas of the screen and then take them back "live".

Logging in remotely to the host would have freshmen complaining that areas of the screen were broken.


Then again, sometimes it isn't pranks but stupidity that occurs across the ages. I remember someone at a previous job would PRINT their excel file about once a month to the laser printer. The file they printed? EXCEL.EXE

One row of print per page and then a page advance. Paper was flying everywhere.
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