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Article #899Re: BBC micro
From: cmp... D.S. Cartwright
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1990 16:55
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1990 16:55
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jle...@cs.strath.ac.uk (James T Leitch CS88) writes:
>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.
Yes. And Amcom (who produced a rather natty little Network Operating
System for the Beeb that knocked the spots off Acorn's Econet) put in an early
version of their E-Net NFS workstation ROM a message that appeared if you tried
to do something to someone else' files:
naughty.
May I also briefly note that if you put a DFS 0.90 ROM the wrong way round
in a Beeb Micro then turn the power on, it is possible to get a loud pop as the
quartz window out of the top of the EPROM flies vertically upwards. I've seen
it done, it's ever so pretty (but it does leave rather a pong of burning chip
in the room ...) .
Dave C, UEA, Norwich.
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