Two Stop Bits | I'm still wracked with guilt over an incident of wanton vandalism in 1984 when, ...

qingcharles 17 days ago | parent

I'm still wracked with guilt over an incident of wanton vandalism in 1984 when, as a child, I came across an Einstein on floor display in a store and promptly figured out how to reformat the boot floppy and basically killed their demo box.

Hopefully they had a backup? :(

bmonkey325 16 days ago
maybe not as destructive, but I can confirm to you that I used to vandalize any Micro on display that booted to a basic prompt with the program:
10 PRINT "Van Halen kicks ass ";
20 GOTO 10
It was the 80s after all...
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- qingcharles 16 days ago
  Oh god, you too. EVERY. SINGLE. ONE.
  10 PRINT "CHAZ WOZ ERE " 20 GOTO 10
  EVERY. ONE.
  It was the nerd version of graffiti tagging. Definitely the first code I learned to write as a 5 year old kid :)
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  - seclorum 17 hours ago
    10PING:EXPLODE:SHOOT:ZAP:PING
    20PAPERRND(1)7:INKRND(1)7:GOTO10
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