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In article <wZfVc0200...@andrew.cmu.edu> sa...@andrew.cmu.edu (Sudheer Apte) writes:
>Now for the lore:
>
>This happened back in BHU Varanasi, India. The university computer
>center had just been given a set of BBC Microcomputers (for
>educational computing in schools) for training schoolteachers on.
>These BBC Micros were beauts: 8-bit 6502 machines, they came with
>their own color monitors with 16 colors, 5 1/4 " floppy drives, and a
>native Pascal-like BASIC. They had lots of neat options, too-- D/A


Talking of hidden messages, on a BBC micro, if you typed :

          RENUMBER 10,2345

it came back with the message :

          silly

This was the only thing you could do that would give this message.

And, of course, the manual claimed that anything you typed in
at the keyboard could not possibly damage the hardware. This was
not true. The machine had a cassette port with remote control
to switch the motor on and off which utilised a reed relay,
so if one was to type the short program

          10 *MOTOR1:*MOTOR0:GOTO10

nasty things would ensue.
 


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