Re: MAKE MONEY ON THE INFO-HIWAY!!!!!!!

Article: 7999 of alt.hackers
From: misc1150@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz (Graig Falconer)
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Subject: Re: MAKE MONEY ON THE INFO-HIWAY!!!!!!!
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Date: 12 Jun 1995 23:03:16 GMT
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Mah / Nicholas (MGM) (u943961@student.canberra.edu.au) wrote:

: ObDumberSchoolGamesHack:

: CS in year 9 was quite often boring, so I used to play Montezuma's
: revenge, from time to time. The problem was the sound - Apple // sound
: ain't the quietest thing, nor the least noticeable ... it was a matter of
: surreptitiously sliding the top of the //e open a little, with a monitor
: sitting on top of it, hooking my little finger under the sound cord, and
: pulling the jumper off the prong. I guess that the sound could have been
: poked out, but I didn't have access to the memory map at the time. ...

I had plans to take one of the four colour //es in the "Computer
Room" at
my old high school and splice the speaker line to the *already*installed*
keyboard switch under the unit.  (The //e has a small switch to toggle
between US and English keyboard layout.  Since no one ever needed the
pound symbol, no one would notice.)  (Un)fortunately the room was
upgraded to classics before I remembered to bring my pliers :-)

: then came the IIGS, which made quietness rather easy, even if we weren't
: allowed to fiddle with the control panel. Didn't stop me from making the
: IIGS throw a Guru Meditation screen.

The GS doesn't run Bolo!!! :-(

YobHack: I *really* hated the person responsible for the aforementioned
computer room.  I mean serious personality clash.  (He is slightly
too computer illiterate for his position)

So to see what his reaction would be to a computer problem, I started
exploring the boot floppy disk (yes, boot floppies) and discovered that
the finder and system files were bog-standard system 6.0.5 files.  (Since
these were floppies I had no qualms about damaging the files...)

Out of sheer boredom one day I deleted all resources from one file except
for icons and picts (because I considered them to be the most interesting
parts of system 6 :-)

Subsequently when booting a classic with one of these disks I found that
it appeared to boot, but after five seconds or so, the machine blacked
the screen, put a dead mac on screen (the one with the cross) and put a
two line hes number underneath.  These two parts of the screen had the
normal grey pattern below them.

The most interesting thing was that when the machine was in this state,
the network was frozen.  (This wasn't immediately obvious because the net
was incredibly slow anyway (a Digicard network (and another proof of the
man's stupidits :-) )))  Since this was a passthrough cabling net (like
ethernet) how did the machine freeze the entire arm?  Did it broadcast
garbage?

To be continued in the next post... :-)

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Criggie the Wierd!                               "Gee I hate being
retarded"
`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'                                - Tom, "The Stand"
part 3

Hi Carey :-)

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