Re: Two ways to torture a comp teacher

[irsman@iastate.edu (Ian Schmidt)]

In article <1994Jul31.132106.30278@cobra.uni.edu> fishern3485@cobra.uni.edu writes:
>Just recalling the good 'ol days of highschool and thought you might get
>a kick out of some Apple antics I pulled junior year...

Yeah, they're great.  

>After a few hours I had concocted a BASIC program that was a fairly-good
>lo-res editor. (flood fill, too!)  The other program was also done --
>it took the binary image of the lo-res screen and *wrote* the basic
>program to draw it on the screen.  For simplicity it used only PLOTs
>and HLINs.

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I did better than that in 9th grade.  We had a Corvus Constellation II
network based on DOS 3.3; each account was essentially a 143k DOS 3.3
disk with a HELLO program and the whole 9 yards :)  Anyhow, I pretty
quickly was able to change all the HELLO programs in the public accounts
to disable ^C, poke out the power-up-byte (to disable ^-Reset), and then
demand a second password (with peek(49152) to prevent crashing INPUT :).
Kept everyone nice n' locked out until I fixed it again, heh heh :)

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