🚀 go-pugleaf

I own a Kaypro II circa. 1982, which is a small box (about 1.5' X 2') with
it's own built in screen and two disk drives.  When I got it (fourth hand)
in 1987, it had relatively few problems, save an annoying message which
appeared curtesy of CP/M when the system booted, i.e.:
 
KAYPRO II
CP/M v2.2
A:

I used a sector editor to change this message to:

(Poof) Yes Master?
A:

and the 'warm boot' message to:

Cold Brew
A:

Which was most humorous for about a day and a half.  However, I gave some
copies of the hack to some friends at the local users group, and CP/M machines
tend to get sold, and resold over and over.  Imagine my suprise to boot a
computer in Pullman, about 200 miles from my home near Seattle in Washington
State, and see the message:

(Poof) Yes Master?
A:

:)
 
My Kaypro also tends to go 'out of kilter' now and again, and the only proven
solution is to whack on the side with a rubber mallet (I'm not kidding, I'ts
right here by my side) which cures the problem instantly.  No amount of service
calls, or replacement of components has fixed the problem, but a good whack
will do the trick every time.

If you have the old CP/M version of WordStar, you'll find the message:

Nosy, aren't you?

Placed in every available open space in the executable code....

+--------------------------------------------------------------+
|     Well, you're climbing to a job on the company ladder,    |
|              Hope it dosen't take too long. . .              |
|    Can't you see there'll come a day when it won't matter,   |
|                Come a day when you'll be gone?               |
|                I understand about indescision,               |
|               and I don't care if I get behind!              |
|                 People livin' in competition,                |
|                          All I want                          |
|                  is to have my piece of mind.                |
|                             -Boston                          |
+--------------------------------------------------------------+