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Re: Games in PC Labs (somewhat funny)

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From: hu... Howard Huang
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 1990 03:22
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Back in high school, our lab consisted of around 15 Apple //e computers.
Maybe four of them had undergone motherboard swaps and become IIgs's.

Well, my senior Writing class teacher decided that we should all do a
paper on the computer, so we spent a couple of classes in the lab.  The
school only had Bank Street Writer, which I didn't really like, so I
told the teacher I wanted to use AppleWorks instead.  It took an incredible
amount of convincing to make her believe that it was possible to get a 
printout from AppleWorks.

Anyway, I brought a copy of Electronic Arts's Music Construction Set demo
to school one day and booted it up in the lab.  The teacher didn't enjoy
it quite as much as everyone else.

Lastly, on the IIgs you can set the startup drive.  If you set it to a
RAM disk but don't install one, the computer will refuse to boot up.
So it was fun (read: adolescent and mischievous) to disable the school's
IIgs's, confuse the teachers, and a few minutes later have the problem
disappear.

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Howard C. Huang                        Internet:  hu...@husc4.harvard.edu
Sophomore Computer Science Major       Bitnet:    huang@husc4.BITNET
Mather House 426, Harvard College      UUCP:      huang@husc4.UUCP (I think)
Cambridge, MA 02138                    Apple II:  ftp husc6.harvard.edu
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From: hu...@husc4.HARVARD.EDU (Howard Huang)
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Subject: Re: Games in PC Labs (somewhat funny)
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Date: 12 Mar 90 03:22:46 GMT
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