30 Oct
2012
30 Oct
'12
9:22 a.m.
From: jim s <jws at jwsss.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 22:34:13 -0700
Subject: B6700 story from Sharktank
"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..."
A friend at CDC gave me a punched card deck that would run that program.
The computer operators at the University were more than a little
freaked out when they saw the eyes.
No, I don't have the card deck anymore.
--
Michael Thompson