Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site denelcor.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!hao!denelcor!neal From: neal@denelcor.UUCP (Neal Weidenhofer) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Re: another funny message Message-ID: <296@denelcor.UUCP> Date: Wed, 1-Feb-84 15:16:36 EST Article-I.D.: denelcor.296 Posted: Wed Feb 1 15:16:36 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 7-Feb-84 12:57:43 EST References: <503@pucc-h> Organization: Denelcor, Aurora, CO Lines: 25 ************************************************************************** >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