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Article #1158

Re: The Beagle Brothers!!

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From: br... Brian Bishop
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 1990 13:07
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In article <669@mmlai.UUCP> barash@mmlai.UUCP (Rev. Steve C. Barash) writes:
>Whatever happened to the Beagle Brothers (a.k.a. Bert Kersey) ?
>  Anybody else remember the Beagle Brothers feats of
>hackerism, or know where Bert Kersey is now?
>

  These guys were great! All of their stuff came with a flock on
one-liner basic programs that didi various weird things, plauy a little
game, do a funny graphic, etc. They did a little demo of the basic
shape-animation ( anybody still remember - SHAPE TABLES?)that still cracks 
me up, for some reason. ( A guy walks out of a house and points his finger 
away from the house and a cat runs out and falls off the end of the screen. 
Guess you had to be there)

  Anyway, my first recognition of their weirdness came after I had run a
graphic-test pattern program of theirs. You got the prompt back, but no
matter what you typed, a different message showed up:

"This is your computer. I am in control. Get up and go the computer
store and buy a big bag of memory chips. Whatever you do, do not turn of
the power!"

 (one letter appeared every time you hit a key on the keyboard...)

  Brian Bishop
  br...@grebyn.com
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From: br...@grebyn.com (Brian Bishop)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: The Beagle Brothers!!
Summary: More Antics
Message-ID: <19322@grebyn.com>
Date: 1 Feb 90 13:07:56 GMT
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Organization: Grebyn Timesharing, Vienna, VA, USA
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