Re: Bitten by my own "cleverness"

["mr. brad" <mrbradremove@ll.net>]

"Polymorph" <polymorph69@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
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> Hi All,
>
> I thought someone out there might find this amusing, as it did me after
> the initial shock hit me. Just remeber that I have only recently
> returned to my Apple after not doing so for over 15 years.
>
> Basically I was running through all of my old 5.25" disks and basically
> taking an inventory of what was on each disk and making sure that they
> all worked. One of my disks had a few games which could be BRUN and I
> had obviously setup a nice menu back in the day (one with scrolling and
> flashing options).
>
> Anyway, I thought I'd just exit out of the menu and see what else was
> on the disk, so I hit CTRL-C and did a CATALOG. Then after a few
> seconds I heard the unmistakable "chk...chk...chk...chk" - yes the disk
> was being formatted!!! Then it hit me. I remember being a wise guy back
> in the old days and using DOS BOSS to change all of the DOS 3.3
> commands as a basic form hiding my code - so I guess I had changed the
> CATALOG command to be INIT!!
>
> Talk about being bitten by my own smarts. I bet when I originally
> changed the commands I never once imagined that it would be me who fell
> prey to my devious ends.....   :-)
>
> I now will never know what else was on that disk.
>
> Anyone else done anything *A LONG* time ago and been bitten by it?
>
> cheers,
> -p
>

ah...back in my youth when i thought i'd always use my apple ii because 
apple being wise would make everything apple ii compatible in the 
future...so when i was using my apple VIX computer in 2006....i could still 
run the old commands....(yeah right like that happened....jobs/macs...the 
end of eden)

i is gonna get bit a lot when/if i ever get around to archiving my 
collection of disks etc (anyone remember how to get a ramfast to work with a 
dc2120 mac tape drive for example..i did it once but remember it was a pain)

sigh
brad
former sysop lost gonzo bbs