24 Sep
2015
24 Sep
'15
3:05 p.m.
On 9/24/2015 9:54 AM, Sean Caron wrote:
I think this anecdote is also referenced in the AFDC
installation site
story on multicians.org? Sounds familiar...
Best,
Sean
Cookie monster originated on Multics, and was taken to the GCOS
environment if it got there in the same incarnation.
We had graduated to far better toys when Cookie monster showed up at the
USL (Lafayette, La) Multics installation. We had a modified version of
the timeshare send message command that was modified to be "send
command" Once you had it so that it was stealth installed on a users
account whenever they were on you could make their terminals do things
spontaneously.
Very entertaining. Cookie Monster was objectionable to me in that the
joke cause you to have to log out and destroyed your session, which I
didn't find as amusing as if it did the cookie trick and something more
clever.
I also had remote execution and logging in a startrek basic program that
took over the installation, but took it back out since the above send
command had run its course. But it did provide an education to a couple
of SysAdmin types who thought they were clever and had never heard of
trojans. Done to them by the local Honeywell Site SA.
thanks
Jim
On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 10:42 PM, steve shumaker <shumaker at att.net> wrote:
On 9/23/2015 2:44 PM, Josh Dersch wrote:
Along with the 11/44 I also picked up a
Honeywell/Bull DPS-6 deskside
workstation; I can't seem to dig up much information specific to this
model
(a badge on the rear labels it as "Model/Index No. B01732"). I can take
some detailed pictures later this week after I've had time to clean it up
(it's very, very dirty), but it looks very similar to the DPS-6 unit
pictured on this site:
http://www.feb-patrimoine.com/projet/gcos6/gcos6.htm
Anyone have any docs on this thing? Or fun anecdotes to share? What have
I gotten myself into with this thing?
Thanks,
Josh
browse here and elsewhere for WWMMCCS history and beginnings of
GCOS/DPS-6/Honeywell 6000
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worldwide_Military_Command_and_Control_System
One legend that gets trotted out whenever you speak of WWMMCCS is the
cookie monster that was on terminals in the Pentagon installation of
WWMMCCS. As the legend goes, at random intervals, the console would go
blank, operators would loose control and a message would display something
to the effect "cookie monster hungry - feed me". Supposedly once you
typed in one of several cookie names, the routine would release the system
back to the operator. I personally know a retired AF IT manager who
worked WWMMCCS and swears its a true story...
Suspect you will find very little material other than what Al has - it
wasn't a particularly common installed setup.
Steve