Creative Computing's error contest (was: Worst error messages...)

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From: r... Phydeaux
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 1990 19:02

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I recall that many moons ago Creative Computing had a contest for the smallest
program that would generate the most error messages.  The winner was  a 1 line
program  on some  IBM  machine which produced   error messages forever. Anyone
remember anything more on this? It must have been in 1977 or 1978...
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Subject: Creative Computing's error contest (was: Worst error messages...)
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