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From: neal@denelcor.UUCP (Neal Weidenhofer)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: another funny message
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Date: Wed, 1-Feb-84 15:16:36 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb  1 15:16:36 1984
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>In the dim mists of antiquity, I worked on a GE 255 timesharing system.  Like
>most 60's-vintage GE systems, it prompted with "READY" followed by a line feed
>or two.  If you got the first 3 characters of a command right, the system
>would execute it, irrespective of the characters following.  There was a
>"SCRATCH" command to blitz all lines out of your work area and start over with
>a clean slate.  Making good use of the 3-character significance feature, I
>liked to create the following scenario:
>
>SCREW YOU       (typed by me)
>READY           (GE 255's response)

I was also heavily involved with that same system.  Some of us (at a New
England college which shall remain nameless) would tell novices that when
they got angry at the computer, they could use that particular epithet.

Now I would never do such a thing personally of course, you understand,
but I couldn't help laughing when someone who did realized just who it
was that had gotten scr*wed.

			Regards,
				Neal Weidenhofer
				Denelcor, Inc.
				!denelcor!neal