22 May
2000
22 May
'00
2:44 p.m.
On Mon, 22 May 2000, Vintage Computer GAWD! wrote:
File this under simple minded, but "our" little mischief was to send
messages to another terminal, with a series of cursor moves at the end so
that the message sender text was overwritten to make it look like the
message was "official". Unfortunately one professor used a teletype which
ignored the vt100 cursor stuff. Nobody got into any trouble, but we did
learn to watch out for his sessions.
I remember way back in 1990 one of my friends
found the codes that allowed
one to effectively "remotely control" the Wyse 50 terminals in our HP-UX
lab. We had a lot of fun creating "terminal chains" where we would have
one terminal, controlling another terminal, controlling another terminal,
which was logged in to the server.
Hmm, in our computer lab (1983-1987), we had to be content with e-mailing
a million control-G's to each other...