29 Oct
2012
29 Oct
'12
11:42 p.m.
On 10/29/2012 10:34 PM, jim s wrote:
"It's 2 o'clock in the morning.
Halloween. Suddenly, the two screens go
blank. Then two closed eyes appear. Slowly open. Eyeballs look slowly to
the left, then slowly to the right -- then slowly stare straight ahead.
Then eyelids slowly close, the two displays blank, and go back to
scrolling plain text.
"Of course, nobody is going to believe the operator..."
Don't know what this has to do with a Burroughs machine, but the "eyes"
were a standard part of every 6000-series CE deadstart tape, as well as
other diversions. CEs get bored too...
Since the code was available, I'm sure someone EDITLIB-ed this into a
deadstart tape. Easy enough to pull this off after that.
--Chuck