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There is a story about the early Cybers that sounded apocryphal when
I heard it.  Does anyone have any further insight (or know the
perpetrators)?

On the CDC 6600, the console was two vector displays, controlled by
code that ran on one of the peripheral processors.  The displays were
round, and the message area was delimited by a line at the top and a line
at the bottom of the display.  In the semicircle above the top line,
various machine registers were displayed. In any case .... under
certain conditions, one end of the top delimiter line would start to sag.
After it had sagged far enough, a little stick figure would appear on
the opposite side of the display, walk across the console to the sagging
end, nail it back into place, and then walk off the screen.

Did anyone ever see this, or does anyone know the rest of the story?
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