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From: n... Nicholas John Williams
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 1990 17:34

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I once had to use a Hewlett Packard machine which was running the BASIC 
language and operating system on it... 

If you managed to contort your fingers enough, and pressed 
Control, Shift, Both ExtChar keys and the tab key on the numeric keypad at
the right, then it output on the message line of the display
"Rocky Mountain Basic, it ain't no downstream Basic!"

I really can't remember what I was doing at the time to discover this... :-)

Nick.
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Subject: Re: Messages inside the machines (was:Re: Soviet ... )
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