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[ story about "proctor desensitization" program ]

Reminds me of something vaguely similar I used to do in our old Apple ][
labs.  I found out the commands to tickle the speaker, and figured out how
to make *really* high-pitched sounds, sounds which were more similar to
vacuum tubes warming up than computers, only somewhat louder.  I would set
up a couple of these babies running on a few machines, at slightly
different pitches (ouch!).  People just assumed it was the computers, but
they were a real bitch to listen to!

~mark
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Mark Shoulson:  shou...@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu   shoulson@cunixc.bitnet

Back in high school, our lab consisted of around 15 Apple //e computers.
Maybe four of them had undergone motherboard swaps and become IIgs's.

Well, my senior Writing class teacher decided that we should all do a
paper on the computer, so we spent a couple of classes in the lab.  The
school only had Bank Street Writer, which I didn't really like, so I
told the teacher I wanted to use AppleWorks instead.  It took an incredible
amount of convincing to make her believe that it was possible to get a 
printout from AppleWorks.

Anyway, I brought a copy of Electronic Arts's Music Construction Set demo
to school one day and booted it up in the lab.  The teacher didn't enjoy
it quite as much as everyone else.

Lastly, on the IIgs you can set the startup drive.  If you set it to a
RAM disk but don't install one, the computer will refuse to boot up.
So it was fun (read: adolescent and mischievous) to disable the school's
IIgs's, confuse the teachers, and a few minutes later have the problem
disappear.

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Howard C. Huang                        Internet:  hu...@husc4.harvard.edu
Sophomore Computer Science Major       Bitnet:    huang@husc4.BITNET
Mather House 426, Harvard College      UUCP:      huang@husc4.UUCP (I think)
Cambridge, MA 02138                    Apple II:  ftp husc6.harvard.edu

My somewhat funny story about game fascists:

Way back in high school the only computer we had access to was a
teletype connected to the school computer.  We would sneak in and
play the standard games: trek, adventure, etc. This irked the school
staff to no end, since students were not supposed to play games on
the computer, only staff.

We decided to have our little bit of revenge.  The teletype was old
and actually used a real bell for control-g. We wrote a little
program that would innocently sit in the background until the
terminal was idle for ten minutes.  It would then rapidly ring the
bell, and then stop, and then ring it again.  The effect sounded
exactly like a telephone bell, and we spent more than a few days
musing over the staff as they searched for the "phantom telephone."

Andy